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

Osees, Abomination Revealed at Last
John Dwyer has crafted his most overtly political album yet in terms of both its lyrical and musical attack, with his band’s recent linear and pared-down punk style put to enjoyably cutthroat use.

Marianne Faithfull, Cast Your Fate to the Wind: The Complete UK Decca Recordings
Reissued for the first time in this six-CD box set are the British singer’s original Decca albums, along with a double LP of singles, B-sides, and rarities from the era.

Reneé Rapp, Bite Me
The pop star’s big voice and actorly prowess help convince us that the choppy, Sapphic-punkish pop and curt, self-reproaching snipe of her second LP burrow deep into her soul.
Mike LeSuer

With their debut album Deep in View dropping this Friday, the Ought offshoot shares 10 tracks that best exemplify a pristine guitar sound.

Melt Away, arriving July 22, will see M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel regrouping for the first time in six years.

Blue Broderick’s new LP Four Wheels and the Truth arrives June 10 via Lauren Records.

The LA-based songwriter’s EP of the same name will arrive August 26 via FADER Label.

The LA post-punk group comprised of members of Fury and Death Bells debuts a new track which officially drops tomorrow via Suicide Squeeze.

“In the Dark” arrives ahead of the new collaborative record from producer Nyles Miszcyzk, which arrives July 15 on We Are Time.

With their latest record Love Gibberish composed on the farm where the band originated, the Chicago rockers accrue 14 songs to soundtrack their next trip to the countryside.

The Usher-inspired single is out now via Grind Select.

The Louisiana-reared rapper and guitarist shares a playlist of 10 tracks he would’ve liked to include on his new EP Riverhouse.

The disco-infused single is the first taste of the rapper’s new LP Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, which arrives this Friday.

Grand Kid, the debut EP from Bartees Strange’s guitarist, arrives May 27.

Nic Offer details the ideas behind each track on the dance experimentalists’ ninth album, out now via Warp.

The hardcore mainstays’ latest LP is out today via UNFD.

The Bon Iver drummer’s latest solo release is out now via Jagjaguwar.

The Teenage Halloween keyboardist’s first solo release will arrive June 3 on Lauren Records.

The single arrives ahead of the Flaming Lips percussionists’ debut album Joy City, out May 2 on Graveface.

The heavily psychedelic alt-rap project’s debut album Casual Abductions is out now via POW Recordings.

The trio featuring members of Ovlov and Palehound will release the album on June 17 via Exploding in Sound.

The latest track from the Seattle-based group’s label debut New to You arrives with a video.

The grungy Bloomington group’s sophomore album arrives this Friday via Darling Recordings.