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

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.

Hamilton Leithauser, This Side of the Island
The Walkmen vocalist finds an exquisite balance of raspy, lounge-lizard crooning and angsty art-rocking on a solo album full of distressed lyricism and black humor.
Mike LeSuer

Alexandra Lily Cohen’s sophomore album Apparition will arrive June 9 via Grind Select.

Co-written by The National’s Matt Berninger, the single serves as the title track to the songwriter’s first album in eight years which arrives tomorrow via Arts & Crafts.

The track precedes the dark-folk songwriter’s new album No Masters in Paradise, arriving in May.

Jonny Pierce will be hitting the road this summer for an extensive North American tour.

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

The East Coast rapper follows up his Punk Goes Drill+** tape with another alt-rock interpolation.

The single arrives with the news that the Seattle group’s fourth album Levitator will arrive June 2 via Nine Mile Records.

Meredith Johnston’s new LP Hometown Hero is out tomorrow.

The track will appear on the LA-based hip-hop duo’s debut album age of scorpio.

It’s the title track from their forthcoming sophomore album, arriving April 21.

Arriving with a self-directed video, the track will appear on Tyler’s newly revealed Call Me If You Get Lost deluxe edition arriving this Friday.

William Tyler joins the Portland-based songwriter on his latest single from Western Sky, out May 12 via Arrowhawk Records.

Roz Raskin’s sophomore LP create myself arrives this Friday via Community Records.

It’s the title track from the Athens psych-rockers’ sophomore album, out May 5 via Fire Records.

The track arrives with the news that their latest album This and Other Gestures will arrive June 2.

An Evening at Macri Park, his debut LP for Kill Rock Stars, is out May 12.

Thom Yorke, The Smile
Alvvays, Weyes Blood, King Krule, and Kelela are among the other artists rounding out the lineup for the Chicago fest scheduled for the weekend of July 21.

With the band’s eighth and final LP turning 35 last week, how come no one born after 1988 seems to be aware of it?

The Mississippi-based songwriter shares her third single since signing with Big Legal Mess last year.

The track arrives with news of her debut album Don’t Take My Dream Away, arriving May 19 via Danger Collective.