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

Alex G, Headlights
Alex Giannascoli’s major-label debut earnestly embraces dated musical tropes only to turn them on their heads as they soundtrack explosions of messy emotional honesty.

Billie Marten, Dog Eared
The British indie-folk songwriter’s fifth album is aided by a full-band even in its most personal moments, as Marten reflects on indelible scenes from childhood as seen through adult eyes.

Flooding, Object 1
The Kansas City trio ushers in a new kind of tenderness with an EP running the gamut from slowcore to screamo, one that’s vulnerable and violent and completely captivating.
Margaret Farrell

After weeks of teasing a new era, the musician has released his first single of 2021.

The collaboration is a new rendition of 2008’s “A Dustland Fairytale” from The Killers’ “Day & Age.”

It’s the lead single from their forthcoming debut album.

Her newly announced album “Any Shape You Take” is out August 27 via Saddle Creek.

It’s their first single since 2020’s “Heaven to a Tortured Mind.”

The single is part of Brooklyn-based Better Company Records’ “In This House” Series.

“Damn colonists / Ignore their patronizing.”

Arriving as part of Sub Pop’s Singles Club series, the new songs arrive alongside new tracks from Duma and LIDS.

It’s the latest in a series of singles since 2018’s “Eden.”

The proceeds from the new covers go towards Secretly Canadian’s campaign to aid the homeless.

The lead single off “Sling,” which is out July 16, features backing vocals from Lorde.

It’s the follow-up to last year’s “Lil House” EP.

The album that will give us a peek into her soul is out June 18.

The album “Let Me Do One More” is out October 1 via Snack Shack Tracks.

“The Witness” is coming September 3 via Joyful Noise.

It’s the title track from their forthcoming debut EP, which is out June 25 via Zelig.

The famed producer’s forthcoming album “Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night” is out July 30.

“This is a Mindfulness Drill” is out June 25 via Jagjaguwar.

It’s their first single since their 2019 EP “Love Everything.”

The apparent follow-up to 2014’s “BLACK METAL” will be out via Rough Trade.