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

Lorde, Virgin
The pop star retains the tainted-love throb of electro rhythm on a fourth LP that’s high on affection, low on gloss, and geared toward transcendence and sneaky sexuality.

Frankie Cosmos, Different Talking
Greta Kline’s sixth album finds her clicking with her new band, lending these songs a DIY quality reminiscent of her early demos despite digging into themes exclusive to adulthood.

BC Camplight, A Sober Conversation
The UK-via-NJ songwriter’s blackly comic neo-chamber-pop missive on sobriety still manages to speak to the upbeat without a snip of excess emotion.
Margaret Farrell

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.

Jemina Pearl and Nathan Vasquez reflect on the healing journey that resulted in the Nashville punks’ third record—and first as full-fledged adults—Mommy.

With their first release on 4AD, the curious quartet tease gripping fragments of their unfathomable world with their strangest and most diverse-sounding project to date.

Aluna / photo by divisuals
The producer/songwriter breaks down the themes of her sophomore LP MYCELiUM while advocating for the representation of Black women in EDM.

The songwriter and Euphoria actor’s sophomore record feels more grounded and mature than his debut without losing his no-bullshit charm.

A video for new track “Devotion” lands before the LP drops tomorrow via Transgressive.

The OST drops July 21 to coincide with the movie hitting theaters.

The follow-up to 2020’s What Could Possibly Go Wrong is out July 7 via Columbia Records.

PTM’s new album Chris Black Changed My Life is out June 23 via Atlantic Records.

The six-song project follows last year’s No Rules Sandy LP.

The LA hardcore group’s forthcoming debut album Life Under the Gun is out June 23 via Loma Vista.

It’s his first single since 2020’s NO DREAM.

The Ballad of Darren is out July 21 via Parlophone.

Smith makes good on the promise of 2021’s Be Right Back LP with its follow-up arriving September 29 via FAMM.

Her debut album is projected to arrive later this year.