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

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.

*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.