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

Stereolab, Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Their first new album in fifteen years spins on an axis of subtly infectious refrains and gently askew rhythms—it’s avant-garde art-pop as something radically old yet experimentally new.

Sparks, MAD!
The Mael brothers’ 26th album purrs with sincere longings dedicated to romantic splits, though ultimately remains true to the duo’s idiosyncratic melody and tongue-in-cheek lyricism.

These New Puritans, Crooked Wing
The interplay of organ and voice throughout the Essex band’s fifth album creates a haunting document of the modern world wrestling for coexistence with the old world.
Margaret Farrell

Claire Chicha explains why salmon have become the go-to visual signifier for her debut album, out this week via Because Music.

The psych-pop quartet are churning out some of the most clear-headed fuzz rock of their career, meeting inner turmoil with a funkified grace on their third album.

The Brooklyn quartet furthers their liberated bless-this-mess energy with the soft, cheeky smile of dream pop to provide a go-to soundtrack for driving on the highway with windows down.

Inspired by the Greek god Pan, Haley Fohr’s latest art-pop experiment blends the sinister with the sensual to create something doomy, epic, sentimental, and totally supernatural.

The superstar DJ’s latest EP of hardcore club music is full of campy anthems and immediate mood boosters that blend high fashion with high fantasy.

The visionary artist’s third album embraces rave culture for all of its angels and demons, though the ego-defying journey may be riddled with moments of internal conflict that rupture its matrix.

Chappell Roan, Doechii, Kendrick Lamar, Dawes, and Billie Eilish and FINNEAS brought compassion to the forefront at the 67th annual awards show.

After a series of increasingly amped-up EPs and mixtapes, the provocative Berlin-based producer’s debut album flaunts an air of detachment that makes for a confounding listen.

Lucie Murphy’s sophomore album Hell or High Water arrives October 4.

On the follow-up to her 2019 debut, the synth-funk songwriter unravels expectations with a series of romantically grand pop ballads steering clear of cliché.

On their sophomore release, the LA grungegazers balance morbid sentiments with pop melodies and massive highway distortion as they explore how grief calcifies memories.

The Norwegian songwriter talks making sense of the pain and anger of the modern world through her prodding new record, What Happened to the Heart?.

Marking the end of the PC Music era, the three-disc album is a mystifying project that goes beyond Cook’s evolving aesthetic as it traverses the past, present, and future.

Darker, thornier, and bolder than its predecessors, the Dublin-based rockers’ third album leans on Greek mythology to spin its own tales about love’s labors.

Shane Lavers captures the awe and unease of humanity’s impermanence on his debut album of dissociative dream pop.

Marie Ulven’s revved-up sophomore LP is both fun and uncomfortable, a poperatic portrait of the artist fucking up and learning in real time.

Kieran Hebden magnifies his newfound dexterity with rave-ready recordings and ambient ballads while maintaining a familiar sense of consistency.

With only two songs currently to their name, the London dance-punk experimentalists discuss the infinite possibilities their future might hold ahead of taking the stage at FLOODfest this week.

The Belgian musician’s solo debut interprets loss through electronic sounds as Pupul processes new sensations experienced in his late mother’s homeland of Hong Kong.

The 66th edition of the ceremony was packed with memorable performances, powerful speeches, and questionable wins.