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

It’s the second look at their new album Dropout Boogie, out May 13 on Nonesuch.

The second single is the title track from her sixth album, out June 3 on Jagjaguwar.

Arcade Fire
It’s the latest single from the group’s forthcoming album WE, out May 6.

The former Free Cake for Every Creature leader returns with her first new music since 2019.

It’s the fourth single from her upcoming concept album Forest City that’s out May 6 on Innovative Leisure.

The single “Hot Girl” soundtracks the trailer for the blood-stained horror comedy starring Amandla Stenberg, Lee Pace, and Pete Davidson.

It’s the first we’ve heard from the Zambian-born artist since her 2019 album The Return.

The legendary new wave group announced a 15-date farewell tour.

It’s the latest offering from the Toronto-based project’s self-titled EP out May 6 on Telephone Explosion Records.

The first full-length from Palberta’s Lily Konigsberg and Water From Your Eyes’ Nates Amos is out today.

The musician gave an interview and performed “What’s the Trick” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

The former Blur guitarist and former Pipettes vocalist will release their debut via Transgressive Records.

Carpenter and fellow Halloween collaborators Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter shared the upcoming adaptation’s end title theme.

It’s the second single from her debut album Preacher’s Daughter that’s out May 12.

It’s the title track from their forthcoming EP, out June 3.

The Pogues cover comes from her recent album Covers.

Farm to Table, the follow-up to 2020’s Live Forever, is out June 17 via 4AD.

Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner will release A Light for Attracting Attention on May 13.

The Chicago-born musician announced her debut album Hypnos is out May 20.

It’s the first original solo single from the former lead singer of Chromatics.