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.
Will Schube

The post-rockers’s eleventh LP is set to arrive on January 24.

The Blake Mills–produced For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) is set to arrive on March 21 via Dead Oceans.

The Carnegie Hall event is scheduled for March 3.

The song is currently in YouTube purgatory due to a copyright claim.

The group originally recruited the rapper to perform the track live at Glastonbury this year.

Come for 38 new songs, stay for the tremendous album art.

The CHVRCHES vocalist shares how she aimed for a more biting, character-driven narrative to her newly released solo debut.

The show is set for February 14 at the Masonic Lodge.

Pulp
The label has managed the group for over 30 years.

Another recent exhibit from the renegade artist was recently damaged.

The duo debuted the new collaborative track ahead of their show in NYC tonight.

The music portion of the Texas tradition is set for March 10 – 15.

Set for December 15, the virtual show will see the rapper formerly known as Mos Def debuting his first new solo music in five years.

The Australian duo will begin the run on April 23 in Detroit.

photo by urika’s bedroom
The anonymous songwriter shares how they aim to engage the listener’s imagination with their debut solo record, Big Smile, Black Mire.

The five-track project sees the producer recruiting some of his favorite artists to rework his songs.

Recorded at Stravinsky Hall, the live album will be released on January 24.

“Leash” will be featured in the new Nicole Kidman thriller set to hit theaters on Christmas day.

James Petralli shares 10 tracks that influenced his twelfth album, which arrives this week via Bella Union.

Don’t turn this thing on before bed time.