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

Depeche Mode, Memento Mori
The sonic sparseness of the band’s fifteenth album—and first since the passing of co-founder Andrew Fletcher—is a welcome retreat from their more conventional forays into universality over the past decade.

M83, Fantasy
Providing a welcome retreat from reality, Anthony Gonzalez’s ninth LP shines so bright it should come with a special pair of sunglasses.

Unknown Mortal Orchestra, V
On their fifth album, the New Zealand outfit take their once-exploratory sound one step further toward full-fledged AOR.
Matt Wallock

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With the lead single from Leisure, the Chicago psych-pop outfit crafts music that lives up to the hazy promise of their band name.

A staple of the NYC-based songwriter’s live set is finally getting a proper release ahead of Jesse Moldovsky’s Sleeping in the Garden EP.

The self-described “glo-fi” duo’s new music video takes cues from Wes Anderson and Napoleon Dynamite.

The SLC-based band’s debut single is a sunny love song about sharing everything from Oreos to The Sopranos.

The LA-based indie-pop songwriter debuts a tender but confident coming-of-age bop ahead of her Marginalia EP.

The London duo share the second single off their forthcoming LP, Infinite Falling Ground.

Colatura’s Meredith Lampe announces her debut solo EP Quitting Season with a softly exhilarating single.

The latest single from Jones feels like a knowing hug from across the world.

The LA indie rocker wants you to march—and mosh—to the battle anthem and title track of her forthcoming album.

The Brooklyn-based songwriter shares the title track from her forthcoming Nate Amos-produced project.

The indie rock trio shares the intimate title track of their forthcoming debut album.

The Born Losers signee previews her forthcoming EP with more sepia-tone sunshine pop.

The LA-based songwriter announces her third album with a song dedicated to two national treasures: Cher and Nicolas Cage.

The Toronto band celebrates the release of their new EP with a Grease-inspired visual.

Chicago dream-pop purveyor Claudia Ferme shares the second single off her debut album a lot’s gonna change, due August 12.

The Chicago band teases their debut album with a fiery, full-throated single about romantic disappointment.

The Los Angeles musician shares a new self-directed visual ahead of his sophomore album Option Explore.

Fuzzed-out guitars and wiry synths punch up this Buffy the Vampire Slayer–inspired love song from the LA-based musician.

The Nashville-based poet and musician returns with a pair of singles off her forthcoming album due June 17 via Dear Life Records.

The London-via-New-Zealand indie rockers balance distortion and nostalgia on the title track off their upcoming third album.

The Montreal-based composer shares another entrancing cut from her sophomore album Ideas of Space.

Twin sisters Jo and Sophia Babb debut a fittingly tender visual by illustrator Gaia Esther Maria ahead of their debut album Second Day of Spring.

The Nashville-based singer and producer turns small town boredom into surf-pop abandon on his new single.

The Seattle-based songwriter will open for fellow jangle-pop favorites Ducks Ltd. later this month.

The Virginia band crafts wavy, windows-down dream-pop on their latest single.

The Brooklyn artist’s debut single is a clever, catchy homage to NYC.

The latest video from the LA-based singer and producer captures a carefree reunion in Copenhagen.

The Phoenix-based songwriter introduces subtle electronic touches on her new single.

The LA rockers share the first glimpse of a two-part project called “Paint by Numbers.”

The Philly-based artist shares a caffeinated cut from an extended version of her debut album “Chain Reaction,” due out January 11.

Foster discusses the album ahead of its new 10th anniversary reissue, nearly moving to Turkey instead of recording it, and collaborating with Taylor Swift.

The sibling duo announce their fourth full-length album with an intergalactic visual courtesy of animator Dr. Foothead and a brief Q&A with the band’s Georgia Nott.

LA indie-pop musicians Marika Justad and Toby Kuhn channel former tourmates SALES in a sunny guitar track fueled by loneliness.

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LA-based songwriter Whitney Mower shares another dreamy, angelic arrangement off her forthcoming “Violet Coda” EP.

The LA-based producer debuts a dreamy dance track inspired by “this feeling of drowning during quarantine.”

Frances Priya Anczarski shares the title track from her forthcoming LP, and answers some of our questions about the project.

The Denver rock trio drops into an abandoned slaughterhouse for their new visual.

Emma Danner’s new single is a dazed, languid indie rock number about—you guessed it—getting extremely high.

The Southern California duo deliver a hazy, post-pandemic reflection in their latest single.