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

Past curators include David Bowie, The Cure’s Robert Smith, Yoko Ono, and Nick Cave.

“Don’t Give Up” is the first single from GIZMO, out March 3 via Company Records.

Brockhampton
The group released their initially announced final album The Family a day early, with another LP titled TM dropping tomorrow.

All proceeds from the track go to the Los Angeles LGBT Center.

“Buffy” follows her album Classic Objects from earlier this year.

The festival returns to North Charleston, South Carolina, on the weekend of April 15.

The Brit-pop icons will be joined by slowthai, Self Esteem, and Jockstrap at Wembley Stadium.

It’s the second solo single from The xx member following 2020’s “Lifetime.”

The group shares a video for their first single since last year’s Get a Friend EP.

Pollen is out February 10 via the duo’s own label Mutually Detrimental.

Radical Romantics is out March 10 via Mute.

The A24 project has Jonah Hill signed on as Executive Producer.

It’s his first new music since his 2021 sophomore album Romeo.

Lindsey Jordan’s Valentine Fest will run from February 10 to 14 at Ottobar.

It’s the Queens rapper’s first release since his 2021 album Deem’s Tape.

The song was written for the forthcoming documentary Wildcat.

It’s the fifth single the Berlin-based musician has released this year.

The post-punk icon is releasing her debut album I Play My Bass Loud on February 24 via Third Man Records.

The six-hour webcast features performances by Run the Jewels, Rise Against, Bully, OK Go, The Range, Shakey Graves, and many more.

It’s the second single from the rapper-producer’s forthcoming album Beware of the Monkey.