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

Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell [10th Anniversary Edition]
Padded out with a personal essay, family photos, and outtakes, this re-release of Stevens’ album-length eulogy permits yet another return to the 1980s Oregon of the artist’s memory.

Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.

Cola Boyy, Quit to Play Chess
Despite bristling with Matthew Urango’s familiar cotton-candied disco, the late songwriter and activist’s sophomore album also opens the floodgates to everything else he seemed capable of.
Mike LeSuer

The duo share the Black History Month anthem from their forthcoming collaboration “Of Process and Progression.”

The Asheville-based songwriter’s new project will drop March 19.

The UK rapper’s origin-story prequel experiments with earnest beauty while still feeling like a prank.

The single will appear on the Kalbells’ sophomore album “Max Heart.”

The “Prisyn” track receives a somnambulistic video from director Bobby Cochran.

The Fijian rapper shares 10 songs that helped shape her bold style.

The Madrid-based songwriter shares the latest from his debut album “None But Everyone,” which arrives next month.

It’s the latest single from the duo’s upcoming “In a Deep and Dreamless Sleep.”

The Melbourne-based songwriter dives into the trauma, sexuality, and humor of her latest record.

The tracks will appear on the Norwegian hip-hop duo’s forthcoming LP “Dialogue.”

The hip-hop duo’s first record in nearly a decade features verses from Aesop Rock, R.A.P. Ferreira, Homeboy Sandman, and more.

The ceaseless bummer that was 2020 didn’t kill the NJ-bred punks’ creative spark.

Carpenter accomplishes a meditative dread he avoided as a filmmaker on his latest “Lost Themes” installment.

The month’s most discourse-worthy singles, according to our Senior Editor.

Hear the artists’ collaborative track born of a mutual appreciation.

The Brooklyn psych-pop ensemble shares another single ahead of the release of “Charismatic Megafauna” on February 19.

The German group’s first record in six years is out now.

The duo’s debut will arrive later this year via Will Yip’s Elektra Music Group imprint.

The rapper talks us through all five tracks on the project chronicling the chaotic year that was 2020.

The return of the Canadian ensemble provides us with a late-Malick meditation on mortality.