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

Gloin, All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)
On their second album, the Toronto band taps into the fury of their post-punk forebears with a polished set of psychological insights that feel angry in all the right ways.

Great Grandpa, Patience, Moonbeam
An experiment in more collaborative songwriting, the band’s highly ambitious first album in over five years truly shines when all of its layered ideas are given proper room to breathe.

Bryan Ferry & Amelia Barratt, Loose Talk
This ghostly collaborative album with spoken-word artist Barratt finds the Roxy Music leader digging his own crates for old demos and warped melodies that went unused until now.
Scott T. Sterling

For fans of The Cure waiting patiently for the new album, Roger O’Donnell says just hold onto your eyeliner.

photo by The1Point8
It’s the latest look from the band’s 2020 LP, “Healer”

It’s the second single from the new album, which is due this fall.

The vinyl figure is being released in time for Comic-Con@Home 2020.

The Pearl Jam frontman joined the band onstage in Seattle back in June 2014.

Arcade Fire, 2018 by Jennifer McCord
Will Butler offers up a progress report on the follow-up to “Everything Now.”

The Staten Island rap legends are the latest to hop on the platform during the ongoing pandemic.

The movement benefits vulnerable communities and organizations being devastated by COVID-19.

Beck / Photo by Pooneh Ghana
The eclectic songwriter celebrates a half-century with a stellar remix from the Houston trio.

David Johansen performing at the Carlyle. Photo credit: Sikelia Productions.
The movie is a collaboration with Showtime Documentary Films.

Hines is finishing his debut mixtape, “Portal One: The Mixtape,” for release in August.

The colorful explosion of Black love in America 2020 makes an emotional and poignant statement over 4th of July weekend.

Los Angeles beat master Madlib serves up a quiet storm for the Brooklyn rapper’s cool summer rhymes.

photo by The1Point8
The electric take on the Robyn classic is from a SiriusXM session earlier this year.

The Weeknd / photo by Andy Sawyer
Abel Tesfaye has given big bucks to frontline hospital workers and MusiCares.

The Takashi Murakami–created show comes with a character best described as a sexy Transformer’s take on Groot.

Activists Emma González and dream hampton are among the luminaries set to appear.

Snoop Dogg at Camp Flog Gnaw / photo by Rozette Rago
The brothers in weed are reconvening to help heal race relations in America.

“I’m a Virgo” will star Jharrel Jerome of “When They See Us” and “Moonlight.”

Bandcamp’s NAACP fundraiser runs all day tomorrow in honor of Juneteenth.