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

M(h)aol, Something Soft
On their second LP, the Dublin trio weave through belligerent post-punk and quasi-industrial aesthetics, manipulating song structures and having fun with atonal soundscapes.

Ezra Furman, Goodbye Small Head
A glitchy folk-punk opera like a pastoral take on Lou Reed’s Berlin, the songwriter’s quivering-yet-empowered latest sees her knocked down—but never knocked out.

Youth Code, Yours, with Malice
The EBM duo continues to test new waters with their debut EP for metalcore label Sumerian, inviting experimentation on each of these five bone-rattling recordings.
Mike LeSuer

The Americana collective return to their Georgian roots on the third single from “New Petal Instants.”

After debuting the track at the Tiny Desk, the Brooklyn neo-soul band took the single into the studio.

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.