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

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.

Hamilton Leithauser, This Side of the Island
The Walkmen vocalist finds an exquisite balance of raspy, lounge-lizard crooning and angsty art-rocking on a solo album full of distressed lyricism and black humor.
Kim March

The Eastern PA band’s new album “Sweet Unknown” drops March 4 via Easy Eye Sound.

The songwriters’ July/August North American itinerary includes mostly outdoor dates with Spencer. supporting.

These live versions of “Praying Hands” and “Too Much Paranoias” from the Starwood will be included as a 7-inch with special edition copies of “HARD + FAST.”

The track was released in conjunction with Daisy Hamel-Buffa’s latest clothing collection.

The prolific Australian collective’s new live LP includes their 2014 and 2016 sets at Austin’s Levitation Festival.

The single arrived paired with the track “Greatness” last month.

Tickets for the Pasadena-set fest—which will also feature a Le Tigre reunion—go on sale next week, with the event taking place next August.

The Swedish rockers’ sixth LP “House” arrives early next year.

The event will take place March 19 at LA State Historic Park.

The collaborative track between Jacknife Lee and Cathal Coughlan arrives with a space-y visual.

The songwriter’s major-label debut, featuring reworkings of songs by Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and more, is out now.

Formerly known as Sons of an Illustrious Father, the duo’s debut under the moniker is out today.

The track comes from collaborators Mark Lanegan and Joe Cardamone’s recent album.

The colorful visual arrives ahead of the album of the same name, due out January 21.

The LA-based duo’s new album “MONSTERHOUSE” is out today.

The new single arrives in the wake of her joining ABBA’s live band.

The Adelaide-based rockers yearn for a vacation that’s both physical and mental in their latest single.

The new LP arrives February 4 via Dead Oceans.

The Brighton jangle-pop ensemble takes us through their debut album track by track.

Pianist Dustin O’Halloran joins Alex Brown Church on the second new single from his “Through a Dark Wood (Deluxe)” LP.