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

Princess Nokia, Girls
With her fourth album of punky and provocative raps, the Nuyorican artist is once again reimagining hip-hop as a dangerous place to be.

Blawan, SickElixir
A dense, monolithic collection, the English DJ’s true speaker-blower of a second album sits somewhere between industrial techno, post-dubstep, and IDM.

Snõõper, Worldwide
The Nashville punks’ second album is less sonically gritty than previous projects, but has an added intensity largely stemming from an expanded studio band and sleeker production.
Scott T. Sterling

Cigarettes After Sex / photo by Adrian Santos
2018 might have marked the end of the annual Bay Area event.

Go behind the stormy, evocative tune with Eric Anderson.

The 1976 David Bowie vehicle is heading to CBS All Access.

The Florida rapper went the extra mile for the Spotify Singles series.

Looming development near the historic concert venue could prove to be fatal.

The Scottish singer was not having Jamey Jasta’s nonsense over CHVRCHES’ Dia De Los Deftones booking.

The long-awaited studio effort is coming next month.

The director mined his own filmography for this seventy-song playlist that ranges from Buddy Guy to Soundgarden.

The sun-drenched clip features cameos from Nick Kroll and Johnny Knoxville.

ASAP Rocky at Lollapalooza / by Chad Kamenshine
The president shocks the world with strong support for the incarcerated rapper.

“Notes on a Conditional Form” is expected summer 2019.

Shadow’s first new song in two years will feature on “Madden NFL 20” and a forthcoming full-length.

LL Cool J joined Mike D and Adam Horovitz to unveil the charity collaboration.

The electro-goth icons proved elusive as ever in their lowkey return earlier this year at a two-night stint in LA.

Jane’s Addiction / photo by Daniel Cavazos
It was a sweltering hot day in Arizona when the alt-rock tour crashed the mainstream.

The Nashville duo return with “She Won’t Make Sense.”

Outkast performs on Day One of Treasure Island 2014 / photo by Lance Skundrich/FilterlessCo
Look out, Lizzo: there’s a new celebrity flautist on the scene.

Billie Eillish is also in the band’s cover crosshairs on new release.

1974’s “Up for the Down Stroke” will also get the new vinyl treatment.

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