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

Beach Bunny, Tunnel Vision
On their third album, Chicago’s grungey power-pop outfit neatly balances present-day anxieties with wistful nostalgia while sagely ruminating on existential struggle and broader social themes.

SUMAC & Moor Mother, The Film
Their debut collaboration stitches the poet/emcee’s potent oratory chops through the metal group’s free-form sounds to create an avant-garde epic concerning human rights, violence, and empire.

Jenny Hval, Iris Silver Mist
The Norwegian art-pop songwriter’s seventh album aims to incorporate senses beyond sound to more completely immerse the listener (and smeller) into her constructed domestic space.
Mike LeSuer

It’s the first collaborative track—er, episode—from the animated group’s newly announced “Song Machine” project.

The dreamy Montreal collective will release “Lonesome Valley” March 13 via Pure Noise Records.

In the midst of announcing 2020 dates, the band marks February 10 as a campaign day.

Expect the Kevin Barnes–produced LP April 3 via Captured Tracks.

Prior to a yet-to-be-announced 2020 LP, the group is hitting The Forum on March 14 with King Princess and Alvvays.

The second single from “I Know Now Why You Cry” is dedicated to fading memories—and Enya.

FIDLAR / photo by Alice Baxley
The Burger Records–run LA festival will end a five-year absence on March 14.

The songwriters’ unlikely meet-cute is soundtracked by the collaborative single from Gruska’s new LP “En Garde.”

With the release of the punks’ fourth album, we get a Marc Finn–directed clip.

The folk songwriter returns with his first new music since 2014 on “Through a Dark Wood,” expected March 20.

The “Uncut Gems” actor performed the single in costume (I hope) and with plenty of visual flair.

Keyboardist Graham Walsh explains how E-40, Oneohtrix Point Never, and other artists influence the band’s music.

Talking to Vulture, the songwriter says a new record will be out “sometime in a few months, I guess.”

The project featuring members of Grooms, Russian Baths, and Field Mouse will release “Unmask Whoever” on March 27.

On the record’s eleventh birthday (they know), the group shares previously unreleased live recordings.

Conor Oberst’s band is announcing their first live shows in nine years, as well as their signing to Dead Oceans.

The Albany punks share their first new music since 2018.

The duo’s fourth album, “Always Tomorrow,” drops February 21 via Concord Records.

The Toronto party punks’ fiery new single makes it look like “Beetlejuice started a band in an insane asylum.”

The electro-glam songwriter sets a live-show staple to record on the occasion of an upcoming tour with Temples.