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

Circuit des Yeux, Halo on the Inside
Inspired by the Greek god Pan, Haley Fohr’s latest art-pop experiment blends the sinister with the sensual to create something doomy, epic, sentimental, and totally supernatural.

De La Soul, The Grind Date [20th Anniversary Edition]
Revisiting their mean, lean follow-up to their ill-fated AOI trilogy, this anniversary package features winning never-before-heard oddities and bone-stripped instrumentals for the DJ elite.

Kraftwerk, Autobahn [50th Anniversary Edition]
Cleaned up with a new Dolby Atmos mix, Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider’s first foray into pure electronics is still recondite and abstruse (and louder) without sounding superficial.
Mike LeSuer

The experimental rap trio shares how William Gibson (obviously), hacktivism, and computer-generated novelty posters from the ’90s helped shape the record’s concept.

Patience, Moonbeam, the band’s first record in over five years, is out this Friday via Run for Cover.

With the Norwegian nu-disco queen’s album Dance Therapy out now via Mute, Nora Schjelderup introduces us to some of the global figures who helped pave the way for her.

The songwriter shares how Tarkovsky, greenspace, and pizza helped shape the record’s 11 songs.

The LA band’s debut EP Just Fantasy drops April 25 via Angel Tapes.

The Swedish noise-pop experimentalist’s second LP explores a considerably wider array of sounds across its 19 tracks, all through cleaner production.

Secretly Canadian’s newest signee will release his debut album Before You Go on May 9.

The Oakland group tackles themes of grief and recovery on their second album Joy Coming Down, arriving May 2 via Tiny Engines.

George Lewis’ stripped-back sixth album is out now via Dom Recs.

The Brooklyn-based post-punks share how everything from True Detective’s first season to medical research on reincarnation helped shape their fifth album.

Directed by the band’s own Danny Lee Blackwell, the clip lands ahead of a new 7-inch single arriving on April 11 via Suicide Squeeze.

The LA punks’ debut album Niis World comes out March 28 via Get Better Records.

The eerie track lands ahead of the New Orleans duo’s sophomore album Like Cartoon Vampires, out April 18 via Winspear.

The LA doomgaze band is touring the Southwest later this month, with a set of Pacific Northwest dates to follow.

Charlotte Weinman’s debut single lands ahead of her March 12 show at NYC’s Night Club 101 alongside Nautics and S.C.A.B.

The Michigan dream-pop ensemble’s fourth album Moonbow is out now via Graveface.

The folk-punks’ follow-up to their 2019 debut is out now via Wax Bodega.

The new-wave duo’s fourth album A Flame in the Dark lands March 28 via Born Losers.

The NYC-based band’s new collaboration with Told Slant’s Felix Walworth arrives with a set of tour dates alongside villagerrr.

Arriving April 4 via Suicide Squeeze, the psychedelic garage-rockers’ third album DOGGOD promises to open up the trio’s sound.