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

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.

BRUIT ≤, The Age of Ephemerality
The French post-rock band lyrically addresses the unthinkable progress and regression of our post-internet age via droning metal and modern-classical sound on their second LP.

Fly Anakin, (The) Forever Dream
The Virginia rapper’s guest-filled latest is a stellar collection of bright, diverse, and downright gorgeous hip-hop that’s so light-on-its-feet it can sometimes feel like it’s sweeping you off yours.
Scott T. Sterling

A fixture on the LA rock scene who played with the Pixies in 2013 has died at age fifty-six.

The ex-Chairlift singer tries to keep her cool around someone she’s crazy about.

Gary Clark Jr. / by Rozette Rago
The Austin native shreds for his hometown on the iconic PBS show.

Fred Schneider walks us through forty years of the band, from their first “SNL” appearance to entertaining crowds of a million.

The new sound of 4AD is alt R&B from Rochester, NY.

The band reveals their first round of U.S. tour dates for 2020.

The LA-based brothers bring familiar feelings to new sights and sounds in their first-ever live-action music video.

The legendary venue is set to get rocked by Black Francis and company.

The young Minneapolis artist keeps the 4AD spirit alive in 2019.

The Radiohead singer’s “desert island discs” are all killer, no filler.

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The comic/musician is taking a break, but the prognosis is good.

The track makes an appearance in the trailer for the new Blake Lively thriller, “The Rhythm Section.”

Andy Rourke of The Smiths and Happy Mondays’ Kav Sandhu premiere their band’s first official single.

The pop-punk icon has been called out by the U.S. Navy for sharing classified intel.

Where chillwave meets new wave at 3 a.m. on the college radio dial.

Outkast / Photo by Alan Sartirana
Thurz may or may not have just let the music news of the year slip out.

The rapper looks back on twenty years of the landmark LP.

A mural depicting a European Union (EU) flag being chiseled by a workman sits on the side of a disused building near the ferry terminal in Dover, U.K., on Monday, May 8, 2017. Street artist Banksy claimed credit for the mural. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The mysterious artist says the vandals simply beat him to it.

The Isle of Wight bros keep it pastoral for the fall season.

The instantly classic 1994 debut is remembered in the Amazon Music production.