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

Today is Wednesday, but it marks the tenth anniversary of the viral video.

The eight-episode series airs March 26 via the National Geographic Channel.

The track originally appeared on Garzón-Montano’s 2020 album “Agüita.”

The track arrives ahead of their forthcoming album “Constellations,” out March 26.

The SBLV halftime show was an eerie representation of isolation and denial of death.

It’s the latest single from Portugal-based musician Guilherme Correia.

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.