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

Lorde, Virgin
The pop star retains the tainted-love throb of electro rhythm on a fourth LP that’s high on affection, low on gloss, and geared toward transcendence and sneaky sexuality.

Frankie Cosmos, Different Talking
Greta Kline’s sixth album finds her clicking with her new band, lending these songs a DIY quality reminiscent of her early demos despite digging into themes exclusive to adulthood.

BC Camplight, A Sober Conversation
The UK-via-NJ songwriter’s blackly comic neo-chamber-pop missive on sobriety still manages to speak to the upbeat without a snip of excess emotion.
Scott T. Sterling

A copy of the track on original label A&M is among the world’s rarest records.

Guitarist Kim Thayil reveals the truth behind the record the band was making at the time of Cornell’s death.

The British stars tackle “Glory Box” for a children’s charity.

A long-lost cassette tape reveals new wrinkles in the pair’s notoriously contentious relationship.

photo by Scott T Sterling
The pioneering producer has revealed a new instrumental album, “Moon Trip Radio.”

Morrissey / photo by Rozette Rago
From signing classic albums by other artists to “Fuck The Guardian” shirts, Moz merch has gone off the deep end.

The rapper has transformed his latest project into this holiday’s freshest look.

The onstage collaboration happened at the Beacon Theatre in New York.

by Cindy Barrymore
Two icons from entirely different dimensions came together onstage.

Gene’s clever costume this year: Fiona Applesauce, “Fiona’s saucy aunt.”

The ’80s rocker opens up on the Vampire Weekend frontman’s Beats 1 radio show “Time Crisis.”

Massive Attack
David Byrne, Spiritualized’s Jason Pierce, and Brian Eno are among those responding to Extinction Rebellion’s claims.

The “other” Los Angeles NBA team continues to make moves on Laker Nation.

One line in her chart-topping hit is at the center of controversy for the second time.

Kacey Musgraves
Musgraves only wore part of an áo dài, generating social media outrage.

The innovative darkwave composer continues to go her own way as she joins Ace Hotel’s twenty year anniversary gala in LA.

The New York duo deliver a thoughtful indie dance track cool as crisp autumn air.

It sounds like Robert Smith is all over the place, and that’s exactly how we like him.

from ACL fest 2019
Blake says his girlfriend is much more than a muse, calling her a “a mini Rick Rubin.”

The latest track from Cheap Queen is a feel-good anthem “for bottoms everywhere.”