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.
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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
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The Los Angeles Issue
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Bruce Springsteen, Tracks II: The Lost Albums
This new box breaks down seven well-framed sets of sessions spanning 1983 to 2018, essentially designed as full-album capsules of mood previously deemed unfit for canonization.
Gelli Haha, Switcheroo
The songwriter’s debut is carefree, sleazy, fundamentally arresting dance music—a multi-sensory circus serving to wallpaper the halls of dance-pop history with neon, acid-tinged nonsense.
Wavves, Spun
The LA band’s eighth LP eschews distortion in favor of a cleaner pop-punk sound that both spotlights Nathan Williams’ songwriting chops and dulls the project’s compelling eccentricities.
A.D. Amorosi
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Nina Simone, “Fodder on My Wings” [reissue]
The reissue’s added tracks are all contextual red meat—no gristle or fat.
April 16, 2020
In Conversation
In Conversation: The Abstractions and Absolutes of Shabazz Palaces’ Ishmael Butler
The ambitious rapper/producer opens up about his legacy and family.
April 15, 2020
The Variations of David Bowie: Inside Two New Classical Takes
Cellist Maya Beiser and pianist Mike Garson discuss translating the artist’s work into something new.
April 08, 2020
Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien Deals with Coronavirus Alongside New Album “Earth”
Though he suspects he has the virus, EOB’s record remains on track for release April 17.
March 24, 2020
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Morrissey, “I Am Not a Dog on a Chain”
This album offers up some of his best performances, wryest lyrics, and most experimental arrangements in years.
March 23, 2020
In Conversation: Cerrone Returns to Disco Roots on “DNA”
The French artist is among the most influential of the disco era, and one of dance music’s first trailblazers.
February 26, 2020
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Khruangbin & Leon Bridges, “Texas Sun” EP
A show of unity between Texan soul makers.
February 12, 2020
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Miles Davis, “The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions”
The sessions that fill this box are those where Davis left flirty, speedy bebop behind for slow, hard bop.
January 02, 2020
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Prince, “1999 (Deluxe Edition, Remastered)”
Like the gluttonous Reagan era in which it was born, the new “1999” is explosively opulent and appropriate for the Trump moment in its excess and mess.
December 06, 2019
Mystery and History: the Strange Music and Stranger Tale of Jim Sullivan
Jim’s son Chris and producer Al Dobbs give their thoughts on the songwriter’s disappearance and why his music lingers on.
November 27, 2019
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Leonard Cohen, “Thanks for the Dance”
In some ways, it’s more like Adam Cohen’s love letter to his father’s artistry than a final statement from the late poet.
November 22, 2019
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Bob Dylan, “Travelin’ Thru, Featuring Johnny Cash: The Bootleg Series Vol. 15”
Dylan revered the outlaw Cash, and Cash admired the wordsmith Dylan.
November 15, 2019
In Conversation
Taylor Hawkins on Fandom, Foo Fighters, and the Freedom to Be a Coattail Rider
Three albums in, Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders feels like a vacation for the Foo Fighters drummer.
November 14, 2019
Alice Cooper Is the Real Motor City Madman
The iconic rocker goes home to Detroit for a different brand of shock and awe.
October 31, 2019
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Neil Young and Crazy Horse, “Colorado”
While most legacy rockers are hitting the road rather than bothering to write new music, Young refuses to stop inventing.
October 28, 2019
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Freddie Mercury, “Never Boring” Box Set
While the original albums sounded surprisingly grey, this curation of solo output is hotly in-the-red, remixed and boldly remastered.
October 22, 2019
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, “Ghosteen”
Nick Cave moves across his most lush and lovely melodies yet in a voice that burrows deeper than ever before.
October 08, 2019
Debbie Harry Is Gonna Make You Face It
The Blondie frontwoman on new memoir “Face It,” how the internet has changed music, and what’s next.
October 03, 2019
The Beatles’ “Abbey Road” at 50
Digging into the brand new Giles Martin re-release of the iconic album on its fiftieth birthday.
September 26, 2019
In Conversation: EarthGang Go Live (Finally) with “Mirrorland”
After a two-year writing process, the funkadelic Atlanta hip-hop duo’s debut is here in all of its natural glory.
September 16, 2019
