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

Lorde, Virgin
The pop star retains the tainted-love throb of electro rhythm on a fourth LP that’s high on affection, low on gloss, and geared toward transcendence and sneaky sexuality.

Frankie Cosmos, Different Talking
Greta Kline’s sixth album finds her clicking with her new band, lending these songs a DIY quality reminiscent of her early demos despite digging into themes exclusive to adulthood.

BC Camplight, A Sober Conversation
The UK-via-NJ songwriter’s blackly comic neo-chamber-pop missive on sobriety still manages to speak to the upbeat without a snip of excess emotion.
Mike LeSuer

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The pining new single from Mike Hadreas is our current self-quarantined anthem.

Brandon Hagen breaks down the duo’s influences on “Either Light,” from Robert Smith to Tony Soprano.

Curt Kiser’s first video under the moniker spans a surreal seven minutes.

The industrial metal group will debut their “Underneath” set via Twitch tomorrow night.

The annual vinyl holiday is getting bumped from April 18 to June 20.

The Boston trio raise one trillion dollars for the FME foundation in the video for the “Safer Off” single.

Rock’s Mr. Brightsides return just in time with the new single “Caution.”

Moses Sumney / photo by Adrian Santos
The conversation began with a tweet by Complex mislabeling a folk artist as a “soul” singer.

King Woman’s Kris Esfandiari and Wicca Phase producer Darcy Baylis discuss their new collab.

John Paul Pitts talks the new single, Wipers, “Fast Jaboni,” and Florida Man.

The rocker will share a recap of last Saturday’s pop-up event on his YouTube channel.

“Say Goodbye to Pretty Boy” drops this Friday—here’s what he has to say about the songs he chose to cover.

Balmorhea co-founder Rob Lowe’s sophomore album “Life of the Body” is out May 22 via Western Vinyl.

Stuart Hyatt’s chiropteran (look it up) eighth album in the Field Works series arrives May 1.

Aaron Maine gets ambushed with basketballs in the clip for his latest “Ricky Music” single.

Dave Benton shares the opening track from his second LP as TM, out April 10.

Roz Raskin’s latest single from their album of the same name is another time capsule of vibrant ’60s pop.

With their upbeat debut dropping this Friday, the Madison post-punks share their favorite weep-tunes.

First single “Just Imagine” arrives today with an appropriately trippy visual.

The Fucked Up offshoot’s debut “Harmony Avenue” is out May 29 via Merge Records.