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

Palermo recounts his band’s history of misfortunate recording sessions, and sheds light on how “The Great Dismal”—named after a swamp—may be more optimistic than he’d hoped.

The track is from the Californian band’s new LP “Love for the Lack of It,” which dropped last Friday.

The Oakland songwriter sheds some light on his complex new Americana rock opera.

The newly announced “Jockeys of Love” EP will be out January 29.

It’s the title track from the Chicago duo’s new album, out next Friday.

The East Coast rapper shares 12 musical cases supporting the existence of a higher being.

“I Wanna Be Your Dog, Boy” pairs the Stooges cover with their take on the Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend.”

The Brooklyn songwriter digs into the sex, love, and codependent tendencies that informed her new record.

The Brooklyn rocker’s genre-bending new single gets treated by animator Durnis Markov.

The Brooklyn chillwave forefathers’ new 7-inch drops November 13 via 100% Electronica.

The South African four-piece share the self-titled track from their latest album, out November 13 via Mello Music Group.

The single will appear on the Chicago hip-hop trio’s LP “BIG DARK BRIGHT FUTURES,” which drops this Friday.

If there’s a thesis to this comp’s audio nihilism it’s that artists like Soccer Mommy and Full of Hell can peacefully coexist.

The UK songwriter brings the “Ekundayo” track to life.

After Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull appeared on the band’s single “Limelight,” Bolm shares some tracks that inspired the collaboration.

Ahead of the NYC trio’s 2021 LP, Ryser’s solo venture “Paths of Color” arrives October 22 via Cowgirl Records.

Yesterday’s ominous message from the band’s social media outlets instead wound up being a star-studded Zoom call.

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

Patrick Sullivan talks us through his new LP, out today via Run for Cover.

Alexandra Drewchin discusses her oddly optimistic, acoustic guitar–driven record about healing and rebirth in a moment when we’re fixated on death.