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 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.

*Bernie voice* Let me thank the Strange Rangers for their music.

“Away Team” is the first full-length from the Nashville grunge band, and it’s out February 28.

“Oasis Nocturno” will be out March 20 via the producer’s own Young Art Records, preceding a U.S. tour.

Sophie Allison announces new LP “color theory” with an Atiba Jefferson–directed visual.

Nick Thorburn, Lance Bangs, Allison Crutchfield, Mike Krol, and more will help the writer bring his script to life.

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“Overtime” teases Meg Remy’s seventh album, out March 6 on 4AD.

The “Hyperspace” single gets a funky reworking courtesy of Annie Clark.

The Grammy-nominated metalcore group’s fourth LP is slated for release on March 13.

The soul band will share the stage with The Raconteurs this Saturday on PBS.