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

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.

yeule, Evangelic Girl Is a Gun
The London-via-Singapore alt-pop songwriter continues to experiment on their fifth album, with the heaviest and weirdest moments also feeling the most authentic and energizing.

Aminé, 13 Months of Sunshine
The emcee’s third solo album blends house, hip-hop, and the East African sun to give listeners a deeply personal look at the journeyman rapper’s Eritrean-Ethiopian heritage.
Margaret Farrell

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.

Humberstone’s second single co-written with The 1975’s Matty Healy arrives with a video.

Co-produced by John Congleton, the single is the first look at the duo’s tenth album.

It’s the first single from their forthcoming album Formentera that’s out July 8.