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

Blood Orange, Essex Honey
Dev Hynes’ guest-filled yet distinctly lonely first album in seven years takes his usual complex arrangements, epic electronica, and intricate melody-making and pushes them into the red.

The Hives, The Hives Forever Forever The Hives
The Swedish garage-rockers’ seventh album feels lean and mean from the jump, with their lovable braggadocio bursting at the seams on what feels like another fiery debut.

Margo Price, Hard Headed Woman
For every tender moment on the country artist’s fifth album there’s one of wind-blow abandon, a yin and yang that complements her split allegiance to the genre’s rich history and the present day.
Lyndsey Parker

The former Regrettes frontwoman unpacks her ambitious and attitudinal solo debut, Parody of Pleasure, and “the existential dread of being an artist.”

In our latest digital cover story, the songwriter discusses Forever Is a Feeling, her first new solo album since boygenius’ hiatus, and how she’s learned to just enjoy the ride—no matter how long it lasts.

With their documentary Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story opening on Thursday, Jeff and Steven McDonald take us on a tour of Redd Kross’ LA.

In our latest digital cover story, the actor and musician discusses her sophisticated new album Chaos Angel, her new Flannery O’Connor biopic Wildcat, and the unlikely ways in which they intersect.