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

Reneé Rapp, Bite Me
The pop star’s big voice and actorly prowess help convince us that the choppy, Sapphic-punkish pop and curt, self-reproaching snipe of her second LP burrow deep into her soul.

$uicideboy$, Thy Kingdom Come
On their fifth proper LP, Ruby da Cherry and Scrim’s usually dense, trap-imbued soundscapes are open and airier, leaving more room for the duo and their guests to misery-wallow within.

Nuclear Daisies, First Taste of Heaven
The club-ready breakbeats and unrelenting experimentation on the Austin trio’s second LP serve as a deafening clarion call for humanity to get its act together before it’s too late.
Margaret Farrell

The pair of tracks follows the Chicago rapper’s February single “Pull a James Baldwin.”

epic Ten is out digitally April 16 via Ba Da Bing.

The gang is back with their first official release in a while.

From their upcoming “Leaky Sealing” EP out May 14 on Park the Van.

The duo also announced their debut album “Doomin’ Sun,” out May 28 via Polyvinyl.

Their third album “Loving in Stereo” will be out August 13 via Caiola records.

The Hollywood Boulevard location will be open April 1.

Mannequin Pussy
“Perfect” is out May 21 via Epitaph.

She was also joined by director Sam Taylor-Johnson and tap dancing drummer Lauren Brown.

It’s their second single from this year, following February’s “Blue Moon.”

Pre-order are live tomorrow at 8 a.m. PST.

Queue “Kentucky Rain” for Cave’s service.

The single arrives with a very literal animated video.

“DANCE (RED) SAVES LIVES,” curated by Don Jazzy and Aluna, is out April 2.

Tim and Cherie Kekko share their debut single.

David Iskra
The festival is scheduled to take place across the spooky weekend of October 29.

She shares a live performance of last year’s “Jaguar.”

The track was made public after its accompanying visual was sold as an NFT this past Sunday.

Following “Rolla,” this is her second single to be released this year.

The two Southern folklorists make affecting tracks haunted by damning realities.