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

M(h)aol, Something Soft
On their second LP, the Dublin trio weave through belligerent post-punk and quasi-industrial aesthetics, manipulating song structures and having fun with atonal soundscapes.

Ezra Furman, Goodbye Small Head
A glitchy folk-punk opera like a pastoral take on Lou Reed’s Berlin, the songwriter’s quivering-yet-empowered latest sees her knocked down—but never knocked out.

Youth Code, Yours, with Malice
The EBM duo continues to test new waters with their debut EP for metalcore label Sumerian, inviting experimentation on each of these five bone-rattling recordings.
Will Schube

Out March 28 via Carpark, the album was produced by Kramer.

The Walkmen frontman will also return to Café Carlyle for his seventh annual residency in March.

The new project from Trevor Powers will arrive on February 21 via Fat Possum.

The annual fest is scheduled for June 12 – 15.

Dan’s Boogie lands March 28 following Dan Bejar’s tour with Father John Misty.

Lead single “S.N.C.” lands ahead of the now-trio’s third LP, set to arrive on February 28 via Matador Records.

The event will take place at Inglewood’s Hollywood Park on March 15 and 16.

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.