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

M(h)aol, Something Soft
On their second LP, the Dublin trio weave through belligerent post-punk and quasi-industrial aesthetics, manipulating song structures and having fun with atonal soundscapes.

Ezra Furman, Goodbye Small Head
A glitchy folk-punk opera like a pastoral take on Lou Reed’s Berlin, the songwriter’s quivering-yet-empowered latest sees her knocked down—but never knocked out.

Youth Code, Yours, with Malice
The EBM duo continues to test new waters with their debut EP for metalcore label Sumerian, inviting experimentation on each of these five bone-rattling recordings.
Margaret Farrell

They’ve also released their unplugged version of the “Star Spangled Banner.”

“Temporary Highs in the Violet Skies” is scheduled for a July 9 release.

“Young Heart” is out now via Atlantic Records.

The track is from the forthcoming “Deems Tape,” which is out July 9.

Vocalist and frontperson Alli Logout also shared a manifesto to go with the new visual.

The single arrives ahead of the rapper’s self-titled album coming July 9, his first album in three years.

Two years since his last album “IGOR,” the new LP is scheduled for June 25.

“SINNER GET READY” is out August 6 via Sargent House.

It marks a new chapter both personally and musically for the LA pop singer.

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.