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

Lorde, Virgin
The pop star retains the tainted-love throb of electro rhythm on a fourth LP that’s high on affection, low on gloss, and geared toward transcendence and sneaky sexuality.

Frankie Cosmos, Different Talking
Greta Kline’s sixth album finds her clicking with her new band, lending these songs a DIY quality reminiscent of her early demos despite digging into themes exclusive to adulthood.

BC Camplight, A Sober Conversation
The UK-via-NJ songwriter’s blackly comic neo-chamber-pop missive on sobriety still manages to speak to the upbeat without a snip of excess emotion.
A.D. Amorosi

The oddball, acid-laced soliloquies that characterized Coyne’s Mad Hatter aesthetic from the start are still part-and-parcel of what drives his merry-to-morose ensemble.

The “Uptown Funk” star can be both trite and torrid when it comes to plastic, flossy funk.

On its fortieth anniversary, the sci-fi classic is getting a 4K re-release. Here, the earthlings involved—including cinematographer Tony Richmond and Bowie’s co-star Candy Clark—talk about the moment the star became a man.

Gleeful arts and farts from Detroit’s finest.

Justin Vernon’s latest is a gorgeous victory and a righteous revival of a talent, but does it go as far as those song titles would have you believe?

1982. Neil Young Human Highway. photo courtesy of the Devo Archives
While still riding the wave of what could possibly have been the greatest run of recorded music in rock and roll history, Neil Young decided to make a movie. And not just any movie. A movie so strange that it barely saw the light of day—until now.

He’s no astronaut, but Michael Volpe know how to scale dizzying heights.

Various Artists Day of the Dead 4AD 7/10 For its twentieth edition in a series of fund-raising various-artist projects, the…

Never before have Radiohead made anxiety such a singular concern, or unease such an agonized-over art form, as they have here.

The man behind the beats of Common and Erykah Badu goes for a robo-flow.

Undated. Lush uncredited press photo courtesy of 4AD
Recently reunited and with a new EP to prove it, Miki Berenyi and Emma Anderson harmonize together once again to talk past, future, and why they would still prefer not to be called “shoegaze,” thank you very much.

That means that every time you see skinny, wrinkly John Hurt tooling around a stolen set of diamonds, Clark’s man-machine ting and moaning musical tones can’t be far behind.

There’s no time for moans or drones on this album—just shouts and kicks.

2015. Wolf Alice shot for FLOOD 2 cred Catie Laffoon
Tracking the carnivorous rise of the London alt-rock group behind “My Love Is Cool,” one of 2015’s biggest debuts.

2016. Sia This Is Acting cover hi-res
Great songs, yes, but without Sia’s nervy verve.

2015. Archy Marshall, “A New Place 2 Drown”
Their newest collaboration finds the Londoners building upon their personal relationship and their view of the works they’ve made collectively and singularly.

Maureen Tucker performs on stage with the Velvet Underground at the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry annual dinner, The Delmonico Hotel, New York, 13th January 1966. (Photo by Adam itchie/Redferns)
The former Velvet Underground drummer reflects on the band’s legacy.

2015. Adele 25 cover hi-res
Oh well, near-perfection is always a welcome problem.

2015. Grimes Art Angels cover hi res
It would be naïve to accuse Boucher of gleaming up or dumbing down her sound because she moved to sunny LA.

John Malkovich // photo by Sandro
The iconic actor leads us out of Plato’s Cave on his new LP.