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

Model/Actriz, Pirouette
The NYC-based project’s second album delights in its confident sense of chaos, with vocalist Cole Haden knowing full well there’s no way we’re going to avert our gaze for a single moment.

Car Seat Headrest, The Scholars
Channeling Ziggy Stardust’s glam transcendence, Will Toledo resurrects the album as a grandiose narrative vehicle while marking his valiant stride into the rock canon.

Andy Bell, Ten Crowns
The Erasure frontman works out something open and anthemic on his latest solo album, with producer Dave Audé adding subtler shades to his post-house pop mix.
Margaret Farrell

Featuring never-before-seen content, the “virtual time capsule” premieres tonight on YouTube.

The remix follows the trio’s quarantine-recorded “Remote” EP.

The track is featured in the Shaka King–directed film “Judas and the Black Messiah.”

“FLOWERS for VASES / descansos” is out at midnight.

“Pain Is Beauty,” indeed.

The supergroup, including Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus, jumped on the track off Baker’s forthcoming album “Little Oblivions.”

Younge releases the title track of his forthcoming album and announces a multimedia project.

Alicia Bognanno covers “Dry” from Harvey’s 1993 album “Rid Of Me.”

How everyone from Phoebe Bridgers and Soccer Mommy to Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift found escape from this hell year in fantasy.

Jordana Nye continues to experiment with crunching rock, hip-hop, and jazz into enticing three-minute morsels.

The classic rock–indebted LP is a delicious blend of sugary pop and cathartic rock.

From her sharp delivery and bite-me bravado, Meg flexes at 150 percent on her debut album.

Felix Walworth’s third LP documents some of the most massive and complex sounds they’ve ever dreamed up.

Ben Shemie and Liam O’Neill talk covering Zappa, becoming a conceptual band, and the restrictions of the LP format.

The tracks on the Big Thief vocalist’s double album are warm and spacious with high ceilings.

Morby’s sixth album is both cosmic and terrestrial, with tracks seeped in death and change.

The two songwriters talk collaboration, inspiration, and fighting the good fight.

This debut LP illustrates enthralling production, thoughtful suspicion, and poetic compassion.

“Hannah” is a capsule of acceptance, frustration, and growth.

The Lawrence brothers fail to maintain any exciting spark that existed on their 2014 debut.