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

Regal Cheer, Quite Good
At under 20 minutes, the sophomore album from the endearing Brighton duo is a jolt of punk-rock beauty, blissfully shambolic from start to finish.

Model/Actriz, Pirouette
The NYC-based project’s second album delights in its confident sense of chaos, with vocalist Cole Haden knowing full well there’s no way we’re going to avert our gaze for a single moment.

Car Seat Headrest, The Scholars
Channeling Ziggy Stardust’s glam transcendence, Will Toledo resurrects the album as a grandiose narrative vehicle while marking his valiant stride into the rock canon.
Mike LeSuer

Micah Nelson also reveals plans for his third LP, “TIME CAPSULE,” with its April 22 release date coinciding with a spring tour opening for The Flaming Lips.

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

The year’s most discourse-worthy LPs, according to our Senior Editor.

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.