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

Frog, 1000 Variations on the Same Song
The NYC indie-folk duo’s sixth album is a wonderful rumination on the perceived limitations of songcraft, using its 11 tracks to demonstrate the infinite approaches to universal themes.

The Altons, Heartache in Room 14
The Southeast LA band takes bold risks on their sophomore LP, blending Latin soul, Motown blues, psychedelic rock, bolero, and just a bit of their punk roots with a vintage production sheen.

Horsegirl, Phonetics On and On
On their Cate Le Bon–produced second album, the Chicago trio reflects the fragmentation and uncertainty of geographical change by experimenting with a more minimalist, primitive palette.
Margaret Farrell

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.

Their third full-length in four years captures the Toronto garage rockers at their most vigorous and imperfectly comforting.

With his self-titled third album arriving this week, the post-punk revivalist shares how everything from a lingering fear of death to a diverse set of musical influences found their way into the LP.

Nearly three decades after its release, the second and final album from Poly Styrene’s formidable punk troupe gets a new life—although its prophetic lyrics prevent it from ever falling out of relevance.

The English alt-R&B musician’s timeline-warping sophomore release is a celebration of connection through movement.

With the Canadian group’s LP Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone? turning 20 over the weekend, we look back on how the cult project was not only fantastical, but also prophetic.