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

Lorde, Virgin
The pop star retains the tainted-love throb of electro rhythm on a fourth LP that’s high on affection, low on gloss, and geared toward transcendence and sneaky sexuality.

Frankie Cosmos, Different Talking
Greta Kline’s sixth album finds her clicking with her new band, lending these songs a DIY quality reminiscent of her early demos despite digging into themes exclusive to adulthood.

BC Camplight, A Sober Conversation
The UK-via-NJ songwriter’s blackly comic neo-chamber-pop missive on sobriety still manages to speak to the upbeat without a snip of excess emotion.
Margaret Farrell

The tracks on the Big Thief vocalist’s double album are warm and spacious with high ceilings.

Morby’s sixth album is both cosmic and terrestrial, with tracks seeped in death and change.

The two songwriters talk collaboration, inspiration, and fighting the good fight.

This debut LP illustrates enthralling production, thoughtful suspicion, and poetic compassion.

“Hannah” is a capsule of acceptance, frustration, and growth.

The Lawrence brothers fail to maintain any exciting spark that existed on their 2014 debut.

McEntire’s sophomore record is an album to escape into without being a delusional utopia.

The R&B songwriter’s album is for “the women who like to say what’s on their mind.”

“Skullcrusher” is an exciting, strange collection of songs from a new songwriter who showcases immense promise.

The EP marks the Colombian-Canadian songwriter’s first release since cutting ties with her major label.

The Courtneys offshoot roams across tennis courts and parties they don’t want to attend on “Somewhere.”

“how i’m feeling now” finds Charli stuck at home with her own anxieties and a tumultuous relationship.

Lipa’s vocal dexterity and blissful pop production carry the weight of her second record.

Sophie Allison on how she’s handling being stuck inside and her post-release reflections on “Color Theory.”

Australian singer Martha Brown explains how familial research and a move to LA inspired her glittering debut.

The celebration of indulgence contended with Deborah Dugan’s firing and Kobe Bryant’s tragic death.

From peachy to rotten, we highlight seven tracks from 2019’s produce section.

Kim’s dissatisfaction with and aggression toward toxic American capitalism are burned into this album.

“xx” is as melancholic as ever a decade after the London trio introduced themselves to the world.

The heart of “IGOR” deals with lust and obsession—a spectrum of desire requiring listeners to think long and hard about the reality of a relationship.