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

Ólafur Arnalds & Talos, A Dawning
This seamless collaboration fuses the Icelandic composer’s gentle, piano-based soundscapes with the late Irish artist’s poignant electronica and singular voice without ever feeling saccharine.

Gina Birch, Trouble
This second solo LP moves further into the Raincoats co-founder’s melodic mix of dub-rock, neo-jazz, skeletal R&B, and space-pop as she continues to eschew creature comforts.

Chat Pile, This Dungeon Earth/Remove Your Skin Please [Reissue]
This single-vinyl compendium welds together the two EP releases that preceded the OKC sludge-rockers’ formal introduction to the unwitting masses.
A.D. Amorosi

These demos and fuller, remixed recordings show off more of the Albert-Ayler-meets-Iggy-Pop thing that Hell and his band probably intended.

Iggy Pop’s last gasp with the original Stooges is hyper-energized and essential listening alongside the official canon.

The glam-punk guitarist has passed away at the age of 69 after a two-year battle with cancer.

The Apple TV+ series and forthcoming feature prove that the director/writer still has many scary tricks up his sleeve.

A colour-enhanced image of English singer and musician David Bowie, exaggerating his heterochromia iridis, 1973. This photo was taken in Paris during a photoshoot for Bowie’s ‘Pin Ups’ album.
Mike Garson, Michael C. Hall, Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon, and more discuss their multimedia celebrations of Bowie on what would have been his 74th birthday.

12 records we were pleased to see renewed and revamped.

If anything was an enabler of glam pop, it was “Lola.”

JPEGMAFIA keeps it mean while on the major label tip.

The Cornell estate gifts us with 10 subtle covers focused on melodic gems with a soft ensemble as backing.

The filmmaker talks profiling MacGowan, Johnny Depp’s role in the project, and peroxide-haired ’80s punk.

By his lonesome, Richard H. Kirk is still making endearingly intrusive electronic noise with nagging catchiness in its subtle hooks

The Tool and A Perfect Circle frontman and bandmate Carina Round talk the band’s latest record, “Existential Reckoning.”

What we’re excited for on the last weekend of RSD’s pandemic-necessitated four-part event.

Jarvis Cocker, at his home in the Peak District, UK. June 17, 2020.
Tom Jamieson for The New York Times
In support of his new concert film, Cocker recalls his slow adaptation to live performance and explains his unexpected obsession with caves.

No one’s excesses are as glorious and ornate as Elton John’s.

This recording of Cave’s tearful solo performance offers warmth, elegance, and smart solace.

The reissue of Costellos’ maximal-overdrive third LP manages to sound crisper than its original recording.

Khan’s jazz album is a logical continuation of the merry-making avant-garde that defines every other KK record.

“Knives” is the sound of a pre-pandemic band going for all the weird gusto they can.

The incendiary music-making trio from Colombia’s Caribbean coast fuse Afro-house and Indigenous rhythms with a frank, humanist political stance.