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

Kali Uchis, Sincerely,
Moving from the synth-dembow-pop of last year’s Orquídeas to dreamy neo-soul, her fifth album sees Uchis adapt the tripling axis of joy, pain, and existential dilemma into cloudy song.

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Naturally [20th Anniversary Edition]
This 2005 modern classic of soul revivalism pulled itself up from the bootstraps of the group’s debut with a respect for nuance to match its need for pulsating grooviness.

PinkPantheress, Fancy That
The UK artist’s second mixtape features an EP’s brevity and an album’s worth of heft, all built upon breathless, sample-heavy instrumentals that form an unlikely sense of cohesion.
Mike LeSuer

With her debut album Strawberry out now, the LA-based songwriter shares a playlist of her go-to public transit listens.

The media darling takes us hour-by-hour through a big press day on the heels of his Death Don’t Wait (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).

The Brooklyn post-punk trio linked up with the Nothing frontman ahead of the release of Bambara’s new mini-album.

The rapper-activist’s new LP of the same name arrives April 22 via Ernest Jenning Recording Co.

The Brooklyn-based chillwave pioneers are currently on tour with 100% Electronica labelmate Caroline Loveglow.

This is Oblivion (Lulu Black and Mike Kadnar) photographed by Rose Callahan on March 28, 2021 in Upstate NY.
The experimental metal duo’s self-titled debut arrives May 6 via Silent Pendulum Records.

Future Islands performing at the Fonda Theatre in Hollywood on 8/21/2014/ Photo by Alix Spence
Duck-walking through the Future Islands frontman’s low-key career as an emcee with features on tracks from artists including Fatlip, Open Mike Eagle, and JPEGMAFIA.

The grunge-rockers’ new album Structural Mercy arrives tomorrow via Slang Church.

Maria Maita-Keppeler’s new collection of songs I Just Want to Be Wild for You arrives tomorrow via Kill Rock Stars.

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.