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

Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell [10th Anniversary Edition]
Padded out with a personal essay, family photos, and outtakes, this re-release of Stevens’ album-length eulogy permits yet another return to the 1980s Oregon of the artist’s memory.

Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.

Cola Boyy, Quit to Play Chess
Despite bristling with Matthew Urango’s familiar cotton-candied disco, the late songwriter and activist’s sophomore album also opens the floodgates to everything else he seemed capable of.
Margaret Farrell

Jordana Nye continues to experiment with crunching rock, hip-hop, and jazz into enticing three-minute morsels.

The classic rock–indebted LP is a delicious blend of sugary pop and cathartic rock.

From her sharp delivery and bite-me bravado, Meg flexes at 150 percent on her debut album.

Felix Walworth’s third LP documents some of the most massive and complex sounds they’ve ever dreamed up.

Ben Shemie and Liam O’Neill talk covering Zappa, becoming a conceptual band, and the restrictions of the LP format.

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.