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

Wolf Alice, The Clearing
A ’70s-inspired yet undeniably timeless pop-rock record, the London quartet’s major-label debut marks a refreshing return to serenely emotional balladry.

Ada Lea, when i paint my masterpiece
The Canadian songwriter transforms uncertainty into something liberating via meandering, arty folk-rock songs greet us like old friends on her third album.

Deftones, private music
Each member’s strengths are on high alert, making the alt-metal band’s thrashing and highly imaginative 10th album a thing of brutal beauty.
Scott T. Sterling

Neil Young / photo by Ellie Stills
Young rolled out the classic cut at a show in Antwerpen, Belgium.

New releases and a star-studded NASA event commemorate one of David Bowie’s most enduring songs.

Big Freedia’s Bouncing Beignets features vanilla ice cream laced with with a bourbon caramel swirl.

Tyler, the Creator / photo by Andy Sawyer
Rocky’s peers Tyler and ScHoolboy Q are boycotting the country in solidarity.

The Texas guitar hero faces harsh realities about race in America on his new album.

The LA rapper is making his dairy debut with a “playdate for your mouth.”

Photos from shoot with ILOVEMAKONNED for Flood’s Magazine “Passion” Issue. Shot at Warner Bros. Music offices in Los Angeles, CA on 6.4.19.
How the “Tuesday” rapper made peace with what he eats—and everything else.

Watch the introspective clip from the band’s forthcoming full-length, “Superbloom.”

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Hip-hop’s reigning odd couple hot-boxed rabid fans at the Roxy on the Sunset Strip.

Listen to the latest song from the band’s upcoming album, “Beyond the Door.”

The politico and the pop activist convened onstage at Summit LA18 to consider ways to save the planet.

Jamie xx / photo by Joshua Mellin
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, Jamie xx, and Lil Nas X highlight the lineup.

Jack White and company’s latest full-length has a secret album cover for true fans only.

The Bristol-born artist proves once again that country music is as black as it is white.

The sultry R&B singer hosts a podcast on the iconic TV series.

photo by Ari Marcopoulos
Only twenty-five hundred copies of this Record Store Day exclusive will be made available.

The rock guitar legend celebrates his award-winning book, “The Hard Stuff.”

Gary Clark Jr. / by Rozette Rago
The politically charged clip comes from the outstanding “This Land” LP.

Iggy Pop / photo by Adam Maresca
A portion of the proceeds will go to Girls Rock Camp Alliance.

Johnny Marr / photo by Luis Moreno
The Smiths guitarist and New Order frontman reformed their group Electronic to perform the 1991 hit.