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

Viagra Boys, viagr aboys
The Swedish post-punks’ fourth album combines half-assed humor with half-assed performances, filling in the void left by guitar-centric punk with demented synth tinkering.

Sunflower Bean, Mortal Primetime
The New York trio’s first self-produced album has a smooth, consistent, quietly confident sound quality that reflects the elegance that’s always been at their core.

BRUIT ≤, The Age of Ephemerality
The French post-rock band lyrically addresses the unthinkable progress and regression of our post-internet age via droning metal and modern-classical sound on their second LP.
Kim March

The song originally appeared on Montgomery’s 2016 album “Montgomery Ricky.”

The MySpace-era emo vets catch us up to speed by detailing their new album, out now via Pure Noise.

The latest LP from the Chapel Hill duo arrives May 7 via Sleepy Cat Records.

Tyler Dozier shares another single ahead of her debut LP “I Am the Prophet,” arriving April 23.

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.