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

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.

yeule, Evangelic Girl Is a Gun
The London-via-Singapore alt-pop songwriter continues to experiment on their fifth album, with the heaviest and weirdest moments also feeling the most authentic and energizing.

Aminé, 13 Months of Sunshine
The emcee’s third solo album blends house, hip-hop, and the East African sun to give listeners a deeply personal look at the journeyman rapper’s Eritrean-Ethiopian heritage.
Margaret Farrell

It’s the duo’s first new music of 2021.

The limited edition reissue comes with a personal essay by Phoebe Bridgers.

The Chicago-based group is dropping their new EP “Girl K Is for the People” on September 10.

This one’s for all the “Hercules” (1997) heads out there.

The Chicago-based songwriter breaks down her EP “There’s Always Going to Be Something,” which is out now.

It’s the second single from the London singer’s third album “And Then Life Was Beautiful,” out September 24.

This is the third single from the NYC jazz group to be co-produced by Dave 1 and P-Thugg.

The Bill Benz–directed film is available September 17 through IFC Films.

The duo discuss unraveling the riddle of the unconscious on their second album together, “Animal.”

The new single follows this past March’s “Would You Mind Please Pulling Me Close.”

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.