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

Shura, I Got Too Sad for My Friends
Electro-pop and dreamy grooves are largely replaced with rich ’60s-style folk-pop on the artist’s isolation-inspired third album, wherein self-doubt feels like a secondary character.

Pulp, More
The Sheffield art rock ensemble’s first album in nearly 24 years still maintains their Kinks-y kitchen sink dramatics in opposition to Oasis’ Beatles-like demeanor and Blur’s operatic Who-ness.

Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell [10th Anniversary Edition]
Padded out with a personal essay, family photos, and outtakes, this re-release of Stevens’ album-length eulogy permits yet another return to the 1980s Oregon of the artist’s memory.
Mike LeSuer

The Philly-based group announces their new LP Numbers Game with a murky visual.

First launched in 2017 in Detroit, the pop-up opened this week in Downtown LA.

Tristan Shone’s ninth LP of experimental metal is out now via Relapse Records.

Catherine Elicson breaks down the Philly-based experimentalists’ latest album track by track.

The single arrives ahead of Martin’s latest solo endeavor, The Bear, which arrives March 25.

The industrial hip-hop duo’s eighth album arrives April 29 via Ipecac Recordings.

Inspired by Audre Lorde, the new single arrives ahead of Satchel Brown’s LP “Warm Absence” due out April 22.

Hear the playlist he compiled ahead of the release of his new LP, which arrives this Friday via AntiFragile Music.

The Orlando-based rockers’ new single is available now as a 7-inch.

The single will appear on Bullen’s new album “Mourning Travels,” which you can stream here ahead of its release this Friday.

The month’s most discourse-worthy singles, according to our Senior Editor.

The cumbia-punk collective take us track-by-track through their third record, out now via ANTI-.

The single was recorded during the jangle-pop duo’s “Modern Fiction” sessions.

With the reissue of these early solo recordings seeing a vinyl release this Friday, Sadie Dupuis walks us through each of the 22 tracks’ origins.

The Wednesday guitarist’s latest solo release, “Boat Songs,” arrives April 29 via Dear Life Records.

The Connecticut-based five-piece’s new album is out now via Run for Cover Records.

The artist returns to her hometown of New Paltz, NY for the visual for the first single from the LP out March 25 via 100% Electronica.

Brandon Williams’ first LP for Deathwish arrives this Friday.

The Brooklyn-based dream pop collective riff on black metal with the first single from their Good Eye Records debut, out March 25.

Micah Nelson also reveals plans for his third LP, “TIME CAPSULE,” with its April 22 release date coinciding with a spring tour opening for The Flaming Lips.