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

Bruce Springsteen, Tracks II: The Lost Albums
This new box breaks down seven well-framed sets of sessions spanning 1983 to 2018, essentially designed as full-album capsules of mood previously deemed unfit for canonization.

Gelli Haha, Switcheroo
The songwriter’s debut is carefree, sleazy, fundamentally arresting dance music—a multi-sensory circus serving to wallpaper the halls of dance-pop history with neon, acid-tinged nonsense.

Wavves, Spun
The LA band’s eighth LP eschews distortion in favor of a cleaner pop-punk sound that both spotlights Nathan Williams’ songwriting chops and dulls the project’s compelling eccentricities.
Mike LeSuer

The Nigerian-American soul futurist shares the upbeat closer to his forthcoming album “The Dubs.”

The Speedy Ortiz songwriter and the band’s former guitarist rip through the latest single from Maneka’s forthcoming “Devin.”

The East Coast’s noisiest collab are teaming up for their second Sacred Bones LP, “Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back.”

The Boston slowcore three-piece list their go-to drinking songs, doom-not-black metal tracks, and more.

The Chicago Latinx punks liven up the dreamy “Foam” single with a bummed-out flamingo.

After dropping a pair of singles, the Aussie art rockers have settled on August 23 for their second Joyful Noise release.

An animated picture book recounting an ill-advised camping trip serves as the Toronto punks’ latest visual treatment.

Marisa Dabice unpacks the self-acceptance, self-hatred, and freedom of individuality that went into writing the punk band’s new album, “Patience.”

On the release day of “Hard Pop,” the Milwaukee pop-punk quintet contextualize their indisputably fun sounds.

The Chicago rapper and his co-pilot turn the “Shoulder You Lean On” single into an aerial stress dream.

Sonny Smith’s label preps a festival in his native SF and an accompanying compilation LP.

Misha Lindes details the story behind each of the debut record’s ten songs.

Lætitia Tamko’s second album will arrive September 27 via Nonesuch Records.

As they blitzkrieg the U.S. with a quick slew of tour dates, the post-punks smuggle us a list of the hottest bands making waves in their native land.

The emo first-wavers ready their first album in nearly five years with another track unveil.

The former Speedy Ortiz guitarist has “Devin” scheduled for a July 26 release via Exploding in Sound.

The “Jerry Maguire”–hoarding collective invites you to break in their new East LA storefront with them July 6.

Thirty years later, the black comedy remains among the most underrated films in the Cage canon.

An auditory illusion that sparked an internet phenomenon wasn’t the only influence on the LA psych trio’s fourth album.

The hypnagogic pop experimentalist unpacks themes of life, death, and bodiless existence on her third solo album.