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
Alice Phoebe Lou, Oblivion
The South African indie-folk songwriter’s sixth album presents her at her most intimate and creative—yet still unknowable—as she traces the lines of isolation and transition.
Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska ’82 [Expanded Edition]
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.
The Lemonheads, Love Chant
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.
A.D. Amorosi
Adam Bhala Lough and Ethan Higbee’s 2009 documentary on the producer and toaster is now streaming on Criterion Channel, and available physically through Factory 25 and Vinegar Syndrome.
The sonic sparseness of the band’s fifteenth album—and first since the passing of co-founder Andrew Fletcher—is a welcome retreat from their more conventional forays into universality over the past decade.
This massive collection of re-recorded hits offers genuine surprises as to how the band sees themselves and their material, making for their best new old album in some time.
Pine talks transforming the fictional group into a real band of sorts, and choosing aptly emotional ’70s-centric needle drops for the series’ Fleetwood Mac–ish drama.
The Long Island–based trio’s Möbius-stripped voices in tandem with Prince Paul’s seamless sampling are what make their 1989 debut one of hip-hop’s foremost GOAT contenders.
Dedicated to her gauzy Los Angeles’s sunny days and noir-ish nights, Miley’s eighth LP is her most consistent, evenly handed record to date.
In addition to live recordings and rarities, this two-vinyl, four-CD package features a remastered version of the pair’s 1998 collaboration Painted by Memory that will break your heart with each spin.
Retitled “Mr. Fear, So Long,” the collaborative rework reanimates the single with “alien funk.”
The iconic Chicago house duo discuss their trajectory from their early major-label releases in the late-’80s to the two records they’ve crafted since reforming in 2021.
The Berkeley troubadour’s once-lost 1977 solo disc is full of weary songs both beautifully plainspoken and warmly character-driven.
Damon Albarn dampens some of the project’s kinkier oddities in favor of symmetry and sleekness on his latest star-studded recording.
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Label head JC Chamboredon discusses the profound impact the composer and electronic music legend has had on the label his father founded in 1978.
The archival label’s founders discuss the long road to this weekend’s anniversary festivities in LA, with Codeine, Unwound, Karate, and more set to take the stage at the Palace Theater.
The loud, bass-bin rattles of the sequel to their 2021 LP sound like a party among old friends and new, mixing cutting-edge noise-rock R&B with old-school shoegaze and synth pop.
On the series’ 17th installment, listeners are transported to the sound of desire, a Dylan reconnecting and reconnoitering with a curt and surly muse.
The Mississippi garage rockers move past lo-fi toward a more soulful and power-chord heavy sound on their Patrick Carney–produced fifth album.
The Atlanta rapper has taken up the mantle of prog-psychedelic, live-band hip-hop, and the results are as outwardly wily and avant-garde as they are insular and introspective.
Like a short story writer moving into the novel’s narrative form, the East Coast rapper has figured out how to expand his dreamy sensibilities without losing his intimate sleepy qualities.
The Italian rockers’ third effort is the slick, chic, and over-stuffed meal in which to portray their fullest flavors.
The first EP from Deftones’ Chino Moreno and Far’s Shaun Lopez in nearly a decade never ceases to thrill, even in its quietest measures.
