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

Her new EP “Something Instead” is out September 24.

The new track follows “Big Bang” from earlier this year.

It’s this year’s third single from the Los Angeles–based musician and part-time tattoo artist.

The two singles serve as the band’s first new material since 2019’s “Two Hands” and “U.F.O.F.”

The two performed the new version together on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

Their debut album “XVI” is out November 21 on Thurston Moore’s label Ecstatic Peace Library.

“drug opera” will be released posthumously on August 20.

Victoria shared some thoughts about the streaming giant on the heels of her recent single “Magnolia Blues.”

Following Jeremy Bolm’s take on Pixies’ “Where Is My Mind,” the hardcore group continues their streak of covers.

The new single follows “F.U.C.K.” from earlier this year.

The single arrives ahead of their new album “Future Past,” which is out October 22.

The group featuring members of Living Hour, Varsity, and Pool Holograph will release their self-titled debut album on September 10.

It’s the first release on the duo’s new label The Fellowship.

Her sophomore album “Planet (i)” is out now via Polyvinyl.

The forthcoming album, “Vixen,” from the Los-Angeles-by-way-of-Tucson group is out November 5 on Kill Rock Stars.

Her EP “Inbred” is out now.

It’s the lead single from “Fun House,” which is coming on October 22 via Saddle Creek.

The track—and “new era”—will arrive two years after the singer’s breakthrough LP “Cuz I Love You.”

The bizarre visual arrives with the title track from her forthcoming album out September 24 on Sumerian Records.

“Brighter Days (Are Before Us)” is the latest single from their forthcoming debut EP “Model Citizen,” out August 13.