With 232 pages and an expanded 12″ by 12″ format, our biggest print issue yet celebrates the people, places, music, and art of our hometown, including cover features on David Lynch, Nipsey Hussle, Syd, and Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, plus Brian Wilson, Cuco, Ty Segall, Lord Huron, Remi Wolf, The Doors, the art of RISK, Taz, Estevan Oriol, Kii Arens, and Edward Colver, and so much more.




Photo by Michael Muller. Image design by Gene Bresler at Catch Light Digital. Cobver design by Jerome Curchod.
Phoebe Bridgers makeup: Jenna Nelson (using Smashbox Cosmetics)
Phoebe Bridgers hair: Lauren Palmer-Smith
MUNA hair/makeup: Caitlin Wronski
The Los Angeles Issue

Neal Francis, Return to Zero
The Chicago-based soul artist finds the funk in digitized-disco on his third album, radiating a glow only known to those who live life on illuminated dance floors.

Kronos Quartet + Mary Kouyoumdjian, Witness
Recorded in remembrance of the victims of the Armenian genocide, the quartet’s work with the documentarian-composer is at turns gorgeous, brutal, and awe-stricken.

Rebecca Black, Salvation
An intoxicating blend of Y2K aesthetics and bubblegum pop, Black’s second album is a celebration of her musical evolution from internet laughing stock to hyperpop powerhouse.
Kim March

It’s the LA group’s second single since stripping down to a duo.

The Latinx songwriter and producer preps the dreamy release for April 23.

The touring member of Chicano Batman strikes out on her own with a new 7-inch arriving March 19.

The early-March event launched by CORE and Linda Perry will benefit mobile vaccination efforts.

The debut album from the new project of Soul Coughing’s Mike Doughty arrives March 19.

The Brooklyn-based drill artist’s new project “Tactical Pressure” drops April 2.

Their follow-up to 2016’s “Bloodline” is a colossal exercise in eerie storytelling and gothic desert rock.

Ahead of the release of “TRAUMA FACTORY,” the Vermont-based artist lists 11 tracks he shreds slopes to.

Neale performs her track “Blue Vein” and Blakeslee plays through “Sometimes” on a farm in western Virginia.

Back to a solo project for Tyler Zanon, the emo-punk moniker promises another LP via Pure Noise in 2021.

The songwriter plays “Computer of Love” and “Now You Know” from his newly released “Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan!”

It’s the latest single from Wintersleep frontman Paul Murphy’s new LP, which drops March 5.

Jack McEwan lists the psych-rock band’s top 10 influences ahead of their new record’s release.

The latest from the hypnagogic pop trio arrives March 19.

Ahead of the debut solo record from The Knocks’ Ben Ruttner, here are 12 tracks that get the artist in the disco mood.

The LA-based guitarist announces her new LP “Simple Syrup” along with the stop motion visual.

The track arrives with new versions of “Caution” and “Blowback.”

The new project teams Fool’s Gold’s Nativ “Luke” Top with Malian vocalist/guitarist Baba Salah.

Perfume Genius / photo by Adam Maresca
Viva Vera 20 kicks off tonight at 7 p.m. PST.

The track is from the Chicago artist’s “The Leo Sun Sets” EP released in December.