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

Kali Uchis, Sincerely,
Moving from the synth-dembow-pop of last year’s Orquídeas to dreamy neo-soul, her fifth album sees Uchis adapt the tripling axis of joy, pain, and existential dilemma into cloudy song.

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Naturally [20th Anniversary Edition]
This 2005 modern classic of soul revivalism pulled itself up from the bootstraps of the group’s debut with a respect for nuance to match its need for pulsating grooviness.

PinkPantheress, Fancy That
The UK artist’s second mixtape features an EP’s brevity and an album’s worth of heft, all built upon breathless, sample-heavy instrumentals that form an unlikely sense of cohesion.
Margaret Farrell

The avant-garde pop polymath looks back on her 2010 album.

The cover comes from BBE Music’s “Modern Love: A David Bowie Tribute Album,” out May 28.

Melina Duterte and Ellen Kempner release their first single together, “Anything at All,” via Polyvinyl.

São Paulo artist Rollinos and Lisbon/NYC illustrator Bráulio Amado get trippy with the music video’s animation.

The artist shares a video for the single, which appear on a new 7-inch out today via ANTI- Records.

“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.