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

Hotline TNT, Raspberry Moon
Will Anderson’s debut with a full band exhibits his fondness for crunchy shoegaze while incorporating a stripped-down, folk-referencing sound tinged with melancholic guitar.

Yaya Bey, Do It Afraid
In its 18 brief, blipping songs, the Brooklyn neo-soul artist’s latest venture into old-school rap, acid jazz, soca, and trip-dub is closer to a groove mixtape than a cohesive album.

HAIM, I Quit
The sister trio’s fourth full-length is a summer breakup concept record that’s intimate, powerful, and too scattered within its catharsis.
Mike LeSuer

Ahead of the release of “I saw first light,” the songwriter shares four records that best define the label for her.

The drummer’s sophomore solo LP is out January 15 via Joyful Noise.

Justin Broadrick reflects upon this grey, dragging moment in history, highlighting the beauty we tend to ignore.

The Belarusian coldwave trio detail their third album, out today via Sacred Bones.

The emcee and producer talk us through their new LP covering everything from the pandemic to Black Lives Matter.

The underground icon details his lengthy eighth record and the universe it inhabits.

Recorded in the Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s studio in New Orleans, the LP is set to drop February 5.

With the rappers’ “FlySiifu’s” dropping this week, they made a playlist of their favorite joint tracks.

The track will lead off the Minneapolis band’s EP of the same name, out January 22 on Slumberland Records.

Pay what you want for the eight tracks Peggy’s put out since dropping “All My Heroes Are Cornballs.”

David Cohn and Greg Saunier’s improvisational album balances anxiety and quirk in a way only these two artists could.

The project formed by Huggy Bear’s Chris Rowley and Male Bonding’s John Arthur Webb has a record out via What’s Your Rupture? today.

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Andre and Vonne share 12 tracks that would make their set if they were given the aux at their favorite Central Florida dive right now.

The U.K. post-punks experiment with spoken word and famous whistlers on their latest single.

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

14 tracks from 2020 that sum up this skin-crawly year.

“Don’t Play It Straight” is out today, and features verses from Moor Mother, billy woods, Fielded, and more.

Tom Fec skips the clichés and gives us 85 minutes of sheer terror.

The New York rockers continue to make the most of a confusing 2020 with their second single this year.

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.