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

Stereolab, Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Their first new album in fifteen years spins on an axis of subtly infectious refrains and gently askew rhythms—it’s avant-garde art-pop as something radically old yet experimentally new.

Sparks, MAD!
The Mael brothers’ 26th album purrs with sincere longings dedicated to romantic splits, though ultimately remains true to the duo’s idiosyncratic melody and tongue-in-cheek lyricism.

These New Puritans, Crooked Wing
The interplay of organ and voice throughout the Essex band’s fifth album creates a haunting document of the modern world wrestling for coexistence with the old world.
Mike LeSuer

How “gimmick” films like “Tangerine” and “Victoria” provided Janicza Bravo’s new movie the shorthand needed to make it great.

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

The expanded version of the rapper’s 2020 album with Roper Williams drops tomorrow via POW Recordings.

Frank Maston shares a second single ahead of the release of his new album with L’Eclair, “Souvenir.”

The Nashville pop-punk collective walk us through their new album, out now via Triple Crown Records.

“Hall of Flying Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles” is the latest in Green’s series of ninja-themed tracks with high-profile emcees.

The punks return with a blistering new single featuring Mannequin Pussy’s Bear Regisford.

The project’s third LP—featuring R.E.M.’s Mike Mills and Superchunk’s Jon Wurster—is out now.

The new single arrives ahead of Monks’ teased new sophomore “I’ve Always Wanted to Be Me.”

The Fuck Buttons co-founder discusses themes of space and reinvention on his bold sophomore album.

Tom Freeman’s debut album drops today via Rise Records.

The video for their latest single arrives ahead of the Dutch duo’s “So Much for Gardening” EP.

Evan Mast’s latest collection of instrumental tracks will arrive August 27 via Because Music.

Matthew Urango’s long-awaited debut album drops this Friday via Record Makers/MGMT Records.

The John Carpenter collaborator performs the five tracks with accompaniment by John Spiker.

The cover follows d’Ecco’s recent “In Standard Definition” LP.

Alyse Vellturo shares a playlist inspired by the lead single from her new “OMG I MADE IT” EP.

The second installment in the EP series officially drops June 20—just in time for the summer solstice.

Photo by Janice Chung
Andrew Choi shares a playlist of his favorite Asian-American peers’ music ahead of the release of his fourth LP.

With 10 new tunes from the shapeshifting electropop unit out this week, Thorburn shares an equally important “islands” list.