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

The Bug Club, Very Human Features
Another collection of relentlessly charming and eccentric garage rock, this fifth album doubles down on the Welsh band’s signature stylized-raw production and unusual lyrics.

Activity, A Thousand Years in Another Way
The third LP from the pigeonhole-proof Brooklyn collective proves just how far they can stretch the boundaries of indie rock with this radically diverse set of songs.

Ben Kweller, Cover the Mirrors
Dedicated to his late son, the former grunge-pop wunderkind crafts something both touching and infectious as it moves through the stages of grief like landmarks on an epic summer tour.
Mike LeSuer

The rebellious Russian punks’ latest video shoot was shut down by police due to its “extremism.”

The LA-based songwriter experiences love and loss in under five minutes in the clip for his latest single.

After breaking from touring just long enough to record their fifth album, the post-punk band give us their fav aux cord picks.

After a series of loose singles last year, the electropop duo is finally announcing the follow-up to 2016’s “Three.”

Trust in Shopping, dear listener.

Dylan Neal shares a live hammered dulcimer recording of Wolfe’s 2011 single.

The LA punks share a clip for the final “Brave Faces Everyone” single before its Friday release.

Veruca Salt, Kathy Valentine, The Pandoras, and more will take the stage at the El Rey on March 15.

The title track from Kaley Honeycutt’s new album arrives with a set of U.S. tour dates.

The Savages vocalist’s debut solo album is out May 8 on Caroline Records.

The UK artists teamed up for an aggressive performance from MM’s recent “R.Y.C.” LP.

Liam Gallagher / photo by Carlo Cavaluzzi
Noel and Liam are feuding yet again—this time over a rumored £100 million reunion-show offer.

The English darkwave group continues to roll out sharp visuals for songs from their 2019 self-titled record.

The Crystal Stilts, Woods, and Purple Mountains collaborator shares the latest from his forthcoming solo album.

The “uknowhatimsayin¿” single gets a video compiled from fan footage.

Our Associate Editor’s favorite pre-released singles, album deep cuts, and tracks by unfairly obscure artists from the past few weeks.

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.