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
The Rolling Stones, Black and Blue [Super Deluxe Edition]
The group’s 1976 musical chairs of lead guitarists is rarely cited as anyone’s favorite Stones album, though this package reminds us that it’s among their most alive and spontaneous.
The Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness [30th Anniversary Edition]
Rising above the odd brand partnerships it came paired with, this opulent quadruple-LP reissue builds off of the already-expansive source material with unearthed live recordings from the band’s creative prime.
The Notwist, Magnificent Fall
This non-chronological batch of remixes and other rarities regales in the utter joy of what must be in the brothers Achers’ heads when they spin gorgeous alchemical gold.
A.D. Amorosi
The group’s 1976 musical chairs of lead guitarists is rarely cited as anyone’s favorite Stones album, though this package reminds us that it’s among their most alive and spontaneous.
This non-chronological batch of remixes and other rarities regales in the utter joy of what must be in the brothers Achers’ heads when they spin gorgeous alchemical gold.
Benefitting the Ally Coalition, this collection features original material from the fest’s diversified wealth of artists—though it’s oddly devoid of any actual in-concert recordings.
Packaging a set from their Minnesota hometown with reams of added live tracks from that same championship season, this collection sees the trio’s past and present melt into one new reality of stinging melodicism.
Further exploring keening EDM and wobbly house music, the newly drug-free rapper still insists that the low-lit dance floors be filled, and that the sweaty energy be high and mighty.
Recorded on the 10th anniversary of their debut, the trio forgoes reliving past glories in favor of quietly ruminating on what’s gone on between these two points, detonating everything in sight.
This six-disc collection expands upon the aggression, industrialism, and pernicious lyrics of the duo’s 1983 LP—a revenge, of sorts, on becoming pin-up darlings of the British new wave.
The alt-R&B star’s fifth album embraces existential lyrical concepts to match its dusky jazz-electro sound, industrial ambience, and grouchy fuzzed guitars.
With the oft-rumored electric version of Bruce’s unhappiest album as its centerpiece, this five-disc collection helps to inform the maudlin medicine that fills the songwriter’s new biopic.
Evan Dando finds a middle ground between nostalgia and the present with his grunge-pop outfit’s latest LP, which isn’t any less messily melancholic than the project’s early-’90s peak.
D’Angelo / photo by Rozette Rago
The artist who all but invented “neo-soul” passed away today at the age of 51.
The film’s creator looks back on five decades of the cult classic as it’s further immortalized with a new Ultra HD Blu-ray release and a book of Mick Rock’s behind-the-scenes production photos.
Produced by Sean Ono Lennon, this nine-CD, three-Blu-ray set ties together his parents’ raw, grimy Some Time in New York City LP with a pair of shows at Madison Square Garden.
With her fourth album of punky and provocative raps, the Nuyorican artist is once again reimagining hip-hop as a dangerous place to be.
Coming off a set of North American tour dates with a finale at Riot Fest, the co-founder of the Celtic-rock icons faces down 40 years of Rum Sodomy & the Lash with a smile.
Bauhaus and Love and Rockets co-founder Daniel Ash discusses his grooving, menacing, and bold latest venture and how it represents an artist with nothing to lose.
This 37-track collection celebrates the London-born songwriter’s genius run of crisp, soulful R&B albums in the early ’70s that have gone on to inspire hip-hop production, film soundtracks, and more in the 21st century.
There’s a soft-spun sensuality to Plant’s singing as he duets with Suzi Dian on a collaborative collection of covers including spirituals, blues staples, and haunted contemporary folk.
Despite its VIP guest list, the rapper’s second album is less velvet-rope affair than down-to-earth contemplation, a pavement-to-penthouse-and-back-again journey through love and hip-hop.
Further extending the LP’s dimensions, this reissue adds a third disc of outtakes, B-sides, and demos that only serve to fortify the project’s sonic asymmetry and emotional, quixotic lyricism.
