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 Black Keys, No Rain, No Flowers
The blues-rock duo sifts through wreckage in search of meaning and growth on their 13th album only to come up with answers that are every bit as pat and saccharine as the title suggests.

JID, God Does Like Ugly
After 15 years of writing and developing verses, the Dreamville rapper has become a master of the form on his fourth album as he finds resolution and comes to recognize his purpose.

Cory Hanson, I Love People
The Wand frontman’s fourth solo outing confronts American grift culture with hope and a communal spirit, as his backing players seem to prevent him from turning inward and catastrophizing.
A.D. Amorosi

Joan Wasser returns to a poignant form on her first album of deconstructed favorites in eleven years.

He’s produced for Kanye, Beyoncé, and Geto Boys—and he finally has a record of his own.

“Good Souls Better Angels” is one of Williams’ most live-wire works.

The godfather of cannabis culture on his comic past, the smoky present, and living long through Trump and COVID-19.

“Fetch” is as cold as it is overheated, as vibrant as it is humble.

“This is a record from the heart about my reconnection to the planet, and the divine existential nature of it all.”

The reissue’s added tracks are all contextual red meat—no gristle or fat.

The ambitious rapper/producer opens up about his legacy and family.

Cellist Maya Beiser and pianist Mike Garson discuss translating the artist’s work into something new.

Though he suspects he has the virus, EOB’s record remains on track for release April 17.

This album offers up some of his best performances, wryest lyrics, and most experimental arrangements in years.

The French artist is among the most influential of the disco era, and one of dance music’s first trailblazers.

A show of unity between Texan soul makers.

The sessions that fill this box are those where Davis left flirty, speedy bebop behind for slow, hard bop.

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.

Jim’s son Chris and producer Al Dobbs give their thoughts on the songwriter’s disappearance and why his music lingers on.

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.

Dylan revered the outlaw Cash, and Cash admired the wordsmith Dylan.

Three albums in, Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders feels like a vacation for the Foo Fighters drummer.

The iconic rocker goes home to Detroit for a different brand of shock and awe.