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

Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell [10th Anniversary Edition]
Padded out with a personal essay, family photos, and outtakes, this re-release of Stevens’ album-length eulogy permits yet another return to the 1980s Oregon of the artist’s memory.

Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.

Cola Boyy, Quit to Play Chess
Despite bristling with Matthew Urango’s familiar cotton-candied disco, the late songwriter and activist’s sophomore album also opens the floodgates to everything else he seemed capable of.
Margaret Farrell

Along with a video for the new Tim Hecker co-produced single, she’s also announced a KICK series boxset and the launch of a new online hub for clothing, tech, and art.

The Clash’s Combat Rock is also getting a special re-release that features exclusive outtakes and previously unreleased mixes.

The single off the upcoming EP from the former Cocteau Twins vocalist and Massive Attack touring drummer features former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett.

The 16 tracks on the Spanish pop star’s third album invigoratingly swerve between tender sensuality, thundering fierceness, and sentimental laments.

The two artists will take the stage at the Indio, California festival on the weekends of April 17 and 24.

from pitchfork fest 2019
The follow-up to Pusha’s collaboration with Kanye West came alongside news that his upcoming album is titled IT’S ALMOST DRY.

The quartet announced their self-titled fourth album, which is out July 29 via Double Double Whammy.

The season’s lineup also includes Ani Di Franco, She & Him, Rufus Wainwright, Nubya Garcia, Melissa Etheridge, Ibeyi, and José González.

The producer returned last month with the single “Vocoder,” following last year’s Promises.

“FITS/My Love Can’t Be” arrives ahead of her LP Barbarism, out June 24 on FourFour Records.

Their forthcoming nine-track album 40 oz. to Fresno is out June 10 via Epitaph.

The London-based French shoegaze act contributes a new song for upcoming PC Music compilation.

It’s the third single from Chaz Bear’s upcoming album MAHAL, which is out April 29.

It’s the latest single from the Australian electronic musician’s forthcoming album Palaces, out May 20.

His latest singles “Breakaway” and “Everybody I Know Moved to LA” are out now.

The record is set for a July 29 release via Capitol Records.

The new single comes alongside news of their signing to Get Better Records.

The collaborative track is the latest look at their upcoming album World Wide Pop, out July 15.

It’s the group’s first new music since 2019’s Heaven Surrounds You.

“Fire Escape” arrives alongside the reveal of the new album, which comes out July 22 via Mom+Pop.