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

Sparks, MAD!
The Mael brothers’ 26th album purrs with sincere longings dedicated to romantic splits, though ultimately remains true to the duo’s idiosyncratic melody and tongue-in-cheek lyricism.

These New Puritans, Crooked Wing
The interplay of organ and voice throughout the Essex band’s fifth album creates a haunting document of the modern world wrestling for coexistence with the old world.

Pelican, Flickering Resonance
The tone of the Chicago post-metal band’s first album in six years feels triumphant, like ascending the peak of the mountain that adorns its cover.
Margaret Farrell

Members of The Tuts, Petrol Girls, and Personal Best detail the long battle against an alleged abuser.

Billie Eilish, A$AP Rocky, and Post Malone will headline the NYC fest in September.

Over ten years since their LP as Bygones, the duo shares the new song “750 Dispel.”

The Academy announced some major changes this past weekend, and Abel Tesfaye is still boycotting.

The single follows her Yung Baby Tate collab “Kim” and her cover of the Pixies’ “Where Is My Mind.”

His debut solo album “Imaginary People” is out today.

It’s another striking single from the Georgia rapper who gave us 2019’s “GIRLS.”

We also get am acoustic version of “Sometimes,” along with an introduction to his dog Sadie.

“Will you only feel bad if it turns out that they kill your contract?,” she sings on “Your Power.”

The Nashville-based songwriter shares how her latest album is rooted in joy.

Hear the first single from the Toronto-based musician’s sophomore EP “It Looks Friendly.”

Her debut album “if i could make it go quiet” is out this Friday.

It’s the latest song from their forthcoming debut EP “Landscapes Unchanged.”

Expect a new single April 29.

Featuring Travis Barker, it’s the first single from her forthcoming sixth album.

Blanco’s mini-album “Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep” is out June 18 on Transgressive.

Rei’s forthcoming album “UMBRAL” is out June 4 on Cascabelera Records.

Their song “Fight for You,” from “Judas and the Black Messiah,” won Best Original Song last night.

The EP follows her 2019 debut “Mama’s Boy.”

The single is from the producer’s forthcoming “This Thing of Ours” EP, out April 30.