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

Neal Francis, Return to Zero
The Chicago-based soul artist finds the funk in digitized-disco on his third album, radiating a glow only known to those who live life on illuminated dance floors.

Kronos Quartet + Mary Kouyoumdjian, Witness
Recorded in remembrance of the victims of the Armenian genocide, the quartet’s work with the documentarian-composer is at turns gorgeous, brutal, and awe-stricken.

Rebecca Black, Salvation
An intoxicating blend of Y2K aesthetics and bubblegum pop, Black’s second album is a celebration of her musical evolution from internet laughing stock to hyperpop powerhouse.
Matt Wallock

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.