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

Stereolab, Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Their first new album in fifteen years spins on an axis of subtly infectious refrains and gently askew rhythms—it’s avant-garde art-pop as something radically old yet experimentally new.

Sparks, MAD!
The Mael brothers’ 26th album purrs with sincere longings dedicated to romantic splits, though ultimately remains true to the duo’s idiosyncratic melody and tongue-in-cheek lyricism.

These New Puritans, Crooked Wing
The interplay of organ and voice throughout the Essex band’s fifth album creates a haunting document of the modern world wrestling for coexistence with the old world.
Tim Gagnon

Dan Wriggins talks community, everyday ephemera, and lobster fishing ahead of the Philly-based group’s debut album for Merge, Love the Stranger.

Hear an early stream of the Western Massachusetts ex-pat’s latest LP before it drops this Friday.

The Kali Uchis and John Carroll Kirby collaborator reclaims the witchcraft aesthetic with her soothing harp music.

The Bay Area (for now) five-piece offer up an early stream of their new LP, out tomorrow on Forged Artifacts.

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Mike Hadreas on his social distance-skirting vision for “Set My Heart on Fire Immediately.”

Johan Duncanson looks back on the Swedish duo’s shapeshifting breakthrough LP.

Stream “Heavenly Rhythms for the Uninitiated” before its Friday release.

George Clanton, Negative Gemini, Saint Pepsi, and more recount the origins of the vaporwave label that made it big—online and off.

Stream the LA dream pop band’s debut in full before its Friday release.

After their fourth album dissolved along with frontperson Jessica Boudreaux’s relationship, she wrote a record about reclaiming her personality.

With an HBO mini-series and a second retirement in their imminent future, the comedy troupe take us behind the scenes of their beloved act.