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

Andy Bell, Ten Crowns
The Erasure frontman works out something open and anthemic on his latest solo album, with producer Dave Audé adding subtler shades to his post-house pop mix.

Viagra Boys, viagr aboys
The Swedish post-punks’ fourth album combines half-assed humor with half-assed performances, filling in the void left by guitar-centric punk with demented synth tinkering.

Sunflower Bean, Mortal Primetime
The New York trio’s first self-produced album has a smooth, consistent, quietly confident sound quality that reflects the elegance that’s always been at their core.
Mike LeSuer

Whether the product of quarantine-induced boredom or not, here are 10 of the most intriguing full-length collaborative LPs we heard this year.

The single, also featuring Peter Harris and Adrian Sherwood, will benefit Jamaica’s Alpha Institute through the end of January.

The duo’s new album “Post American Studies” drops February 4.

“Tabula Rasa” arrives ahead of the record’s January 14 release date.

The South London band’s album “everybody else smiled back” is out now via Counter Intuitive Records.

Brandon Lowry’s LP “Welcome to the Future (Season 1)” is out now via Take This to Heart Records.

“Phantom Throb” is the first single from WHY?’s Yoni Wolf and Fog’s Andrew Broder since their self-titled LP from 2003.

The track was featured on the rapper/songwriter’s surprise-released acoustic album from last month.

The cult rockers’ first album since 2018’s “TRU” is out now via Exploding in Sound.

The mostly instrumental LP—incorporating influences ranging from Arca to The Locust, Bosch to the Challenger disaster—officially drops this Friday.

The Puerto Rican rocker’s latest solo album will arrive soon via Hotel Records.

The Boston group’s sixth LP “Frosting” is out now via Take This to Heart Records.

A remix by Andrew Sarlo also arrives ahead of the LA-based producer’s latest project, which drops December 13.

The Cleveland punks’ new EP is out now via Triple Crown Records.

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

Ahead of the double-LP reissue of his “Dangerous” LP, Gene Thompson breaks down what he was listening to when each track from the album was written.

The Sons of Kemet tuba player’s genre-hopping sophomore album is out today via New Soil.

The single arrives ahead of her LP “Highs in the Minuses” which drops tomorrow.

The West Coast punks share a visual for the track from their recently released LP “It’s All Over.”

The single from her forthcoming LP “Tender” arrives with a video featuring dancing and choreography by Hana Erdman and Louise Dahl.