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

The Bug Club, Very Human Features
Another collection of relentlessly charming and eccentric garage rock, this fifth album doubles down on the Welsh band’s signature stylized-raw production and unusual lyrics.

Activity, A Thousand Years in Another Way
The third LP from the pigeonhole-proof Brooklyn collective proves just how far they can stretch the boundaries of indie rock with this radically diverse set of songs.

Ben Kweller, Cover the Mirrors
Dedicated to his late son, the former grunge-pop wunderkind crafts something both touching and infectious as it moves through the stages of grief like landmarks on an epic summer tour.
Margaret Farrell

The standout track is from his breakthrough album “Live Forever.”

“Scout” is out July 23 on Grand Jury.

The debut album from Jay Som’s Melina Duterte and Palehound’s Ellen Kempner is out today.

The split follows Gulfer’s self-titled album and Charmer’s “Ivy” from last year.

The collaborative single written two years ago finally arrives with a visual.

The Danish pop star returns with her first single in two years.

“I don’t care anymore / Empathy is such a chore.”

The track appears on her debut album “if i could make it all go quiet.”

Hear the Canadian rapper’s first new music since last year’s “Rough 7” with JPEGMAFIA.

It’s the first new music we’ve heard from Jacklin this year.

His debut album “I’ve Got Some Living to Do” is out this July.

After a seven-year hiatus, the dancer/activist/musician returns with ten glorious tracks.

His new album “Speedstar” is coming August 20 via Bar/None Records.

Saint Heron was founded in 2013 by Solange, and today the the organization dedicated to uplifting radical and innovative voices…

The duo has another new single, “Its Way With Me,” coming June 22.

The noxious punks’ latest single “Too Many Bad Habits” is out now via Royal Mountain Records.

It’s the latest in a series of singles since his “Happiness” EP from 2018.

The brothers’ “Full-Throated Messianic Homage” is out today.

Their debut album “take the cake” is out tomorrow via Fire Talk/Royal Mountain Records.

Their first collaborative single comes with a striking video directed by Kimberly Stuckwisch.