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

Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.

Cola Boyy, Quit to Play Chess
Despite bristling with Matthew Urango’s familiar cotton-candied disco, the late songwriter and activist’s sophomore album also opens the floodgates to everything else he seemed capable of.

yeule, Evangelic Girl Is a Gun
The London-via-Singapore alt-pop songwriter continues to experiment on their fifth album, with the heaviest and weirdest moments also feeling the most authentic and energizing.
A.D. Amorosi

While the original albums sounded surprisingly grey, this curation of solo output is hotly in-the-red, remixed and boldly remastered.

Nick Cave moves across his most lush and lovely melodies yet in a voice that burrows deeper than ever before.

The Blondie frontwoman on new memoir “Face It,” how the internet has changed music, and what’s next.

Digging into the brand new Giles Martin re-release of the iconic album on its fiftieth birthday.

After a two-year writing process, the funkadelic Atlanta hip-hop duo’s debut is here in all of its natural glory.

When he’s not writing experimental synth-folk, Roberto Carlos Lange is breaking new ground in the world of collaborative visual art.

The French electronic music duo welcomes you aboard their alien undertaking.

If Iggy Pop hasn’t been free this whole time, who the fuck has?

A cool, cutting chronicler of all things California.

The folk-punk trio’s tenth album is their freest and most existential yet.

On her seventh record, the pop star has gone from playing the victim to taking full responsibility.

The artist born Matthew Urango is a multi-instrumentalist whose punk-rock youth led to his making spaced-out, modern disco.

Indefinable, refined, and weirdly universal.

The late manager of Neil Young and Joni Mitchell went deep with his artists.

Scorsese’s Netflix doc and the newly released live recordings highlight a mythic chapter in Dylanology.

From “Hee Haw” to heavy metal to rock ‘n’ roll, Shooter has it covered.

Springsteen has fused his Asbury Park roots with his rambling man esprit, and brought the whole family out to the Hills of Beverly.

This is Vampire Weekend’s “White Album”—all its baroque catchiness and experimentation in one not-so-neat double LP package.

L7 / photo by Daniel Cavazos
On the occasion of the LA punks’ first record in twenty years, Sparks explains why getting the band back together—and pissing in hats—is necessary.

December 1, 2018. Saxapahaw, North Carolina
Promo photos of The Mountain Goats ahead of their new album “Dragons”
The core of TMG talks his upcoming album for Merge and his podcast that’s now in its second season.