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

Ezra Furman, Goodbye Small Head
A glitchy folk-punk opera like a pastoral take on Lou Reed’s Berlin, the songwriter’s quivering-yet-empowered latest sees her knocked down—but never knocked out.

Youth Code, Yours, with Malice
The EBM duo continues to test new waters with their debut EP for metalcore label Sumerian, inviting experimentation on each of these five bone-rattling recordings.

Kali Uchis, Sincerely,
Moving from the synth-dembow-pop of last year’s Orquídeas to dreamy neo-soul, her fifth album sees Uchis adapt the tripling axis of joy, pain, and existential dilemma into cloudy song.
Kim March

The revised single features vocal contributions from Wallows’ Dylan Minnette and The Naked and Famous’ Alisa Xayalith.

Charles’ album of reimagined classics, “Y’all Don’t (Really) Care About Black Women,” arrives October 22.

The two new tracks follow Merton’s first 2021 release “Vertigo.”

The London-based songwriter sings about moving on in her latest single.

It’s the third single from Albarn’s forthcoming “The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows.”

The Los Angeles synthpop mainstays are prepping to release their debut album.

With the show’s 12th season kicking off tonight, Benjamin and Yates share 19 tracks that define Sterling Archer and Dr. Algernop Krieger.

The Philly punks’ sophomore album “Still Blooms” is out October 8 on Anchor Eighty Four and Big Scary Monsters.

Big Boi
The MLS All-Star Concert, presented by Heineken, will take place August 24 at The Torch at the Los Angeles Coliseum.

The U.K. alt-rockers’ “All the Colours of You” is out now.

The Katie Pruitt–featuring track can be found on Rothman’s recent album “Good Morning, America,” out now.

With their debut LP “Flower Moon” out now, the Dallas synth-pop quartet share 10 tracks to moongaze to.

The sinister remix follows the release of Ora’s debut LP “Human Safari” back in July.

The Scottish songwriter’s first album in 12 years “Heart-Shaped Scars” is out now.

Sven Gamsky shares a playlist of tunes that inspired the genre-hopping sounds of his new LP, out tomorrow via Interscope and Still Woozy Productions.

Her album “The Id” is out October 22.

The original version appears on Elfman’s recent album “Big Mess.”

The new single follows the Chennai, India–based rockers’ 2019 “WKND FRNDS” EP.

The North Carolina–based songwriter’s album “Headwaters” is out September 17 via Big Legal Mess.

The West Coast punks’ new album “No Way Out But Through” arrives September 10 via Fat Wreck Chords.