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

Neal Francis, Return to Zero
The Chicago-based soul artist finds the funk in digitized-disco on his third album, radiating a glow only known to those who live life on illuminated dance floors.

Kronos Quartet + Mary Kouyoumdjian, Witness
Recorded in remembrance of the victims of the Armenian genocide, the quartet’s work with the documentarian-composer is at turns gorgeous, brutal, and awe-stricken.

Rebecca Black, Salvation
An intoxicating blend of Y2K aesthetics and bubblegum pop, Black’s second album is a celebration of her musical evolution from internet laughing stock to hyperpop powerhouse.
Margaret Farrell

After a three-year hiatus, the series will return to the LA art museum from June through September.

The video celebrates the one-year anniversary of Maria Ulven’s debut album if i could make it go quiet.

Strange details a painful reality for Black youth in America on his latest single from Farm to Table.

Nine Inch Nails / photo by Daniel Cavazos
Other performers include Ice Cube, Sleater-Kinney, Bauhaus, Descendents, Yellowcard, Alice Glass, The Wonder Years, Bully, and Sunny Day Real Estate.

Asphalt Meadows, the follow-up to 2018’s Thank You for Today, is out September 16.

Cheat Codes—out August 12—features MF Doom, Raekwon & Kid Sister, Joey Bada$$, Conway the Machine, and A$AP Rocky with Run the Jewels.

Apple announced the discontinuation of the iPod Touch—the last variation of the product originally launched over 20 years ago.

It’s the lead single from her forthcoming album Pre Pleasure, out August 26 via Polyvinyl.

Caroline Polachek
The Jack Antonoff–produced project also includes Thundercat, Brockhampton, and Phoebe Bridgers covering classic ’70s hits.

The Pipettes’ Rose Elinor Dougall and Blur’s Graham Coxon share their first song as a duo.

The single follows Rocky’s recent collaborations with A$AP Ant, $NOT, and Nigo.

It’s the English songwriter’s first release since dropping her sophomore album Colourgrade last year.

Enter to win a pair of tickets to the Pasadena festival taking place on August 27 & 28, and featuring The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, Le Tigre, and many more.

Beach House 2021
Get a taste of the duo’s soundtrack in the two teasers shared ahead of the film’s release this Friday.

It’s Blanco second collaborative single of the year following “Family Ties” with Michael Stipe.

Beach Bunny
It’s the third single from their forthcoming sophomore album Emotional Creature, out July 22.

The single comes with an Alaska-directed video featuring some steamy scenes with a robot.

Events throughout June at The O2 in London will bring together artists and climate experts to discuss global change.

How Do You Burn? is out September 9 on Royal Cream/BMG.

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Shaun Fleming recalls how a house party fire, middle school bullies, family trauma, and lost friends shaped their most personal album to date.