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

“Nike Soldier” is the first single from the posthumous album slated to be released April 23 via Sacred Bones.

The overwhelming single is from Pussy Riot’s forthcoming EP, which is expected this spring.

It’s his first release since his self-titled album, which dropped last October.

The debut single from the Sacramento-based trio focuses on the unnerving expectations of managing the future.

Chazwick Bundick is honoring the breakthrough album with limited edition merch and an instrumental version of the record.

Hopefully, like the legend of the phoenix, etc. etc.

Kirby’s debut gives us songs imbued with excitement in the unknown.

Questlove. ?uestlove.
“It goes beyond saying that Sly’s creative legacy is in my DNA.”

The 23-year-old pop singer enlists Charli for the first glimpse of her forthcoming remix EP.

Hear the first single from Slater’s forthcoming 9-track project.

This is their third single ahead of the release of “Hearts of Gold” out March 12 on Pure Noise.

Following the release of “Good Days,” she’s teamed up with Tazo Tea and American Forests to combat climate change in BIPOC areas.

From their debut “Introducing…The Pink Stones,” out April 9 via Normaltown Records.

The news arrives on the heels of “New York Times Presents: Framing Britney Spears.”

Yung Yemi
This is the Toronto rapper’s second single of 2021.

Following last year’s “Jaguar” LP, she takes us to the wild wild west.

Photo credit: Justin Brown
The Internet songwriter shares her first solo single since 2017’s “Fin.”

Stevens earned an Oscar nom for his music featured in Guadagnino’s “Call Me By Your Name.”

The lead single from the ex-HOLYCHILD songwriter’s debut EP arrives with an open letter from Elizabeth Nistico to herself.

It’s the group’s latest single following 2019’s Stuffed & Ready.