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

Deftones, private music
Each member’s strengths are on high alert, making the alt-metal band’s thrashing and highly imaginative 10th album a thing of brutal beauty.

Mac DeMarco, Guitar
The songwriter’s intimately recorded latest LP is a simple affair where humor and bluntness roam freely and his typical experimentation hardly obscures the beauty of his songwriting craft.

Quadeca, Vanisher, Horizon Scraper
The YouTuber-turned-rapper’s production style reaches a new zenith, with the LP’s intensity perfectly complementing Benjamin Lasky’s verses exploring obsession, alienation, and self-destruction.
A.D. Amorosi

Both new projects pull the curtain back on missed moments, eras of Cash once considered minor.

With the new Lightfoot doc premiering today, we revisit a conversation we had with the legendary songwriter earlier this year upon the release of his 21st album.

The co-founder of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club speaks gleefully in his memoir, out today.

“Beyond the Pale” feels tight, tense, yet free, with pasty Cocker as the broodingly bittersweet centerpiece.

This Nelson isn’t bleak, but he sure comes close to it.

Remembering the iconic Italian film composer, who died this week at 91.

The singer/songwriter on love and politics, mom and dad, and his frank new album, Unfollow the Rules.

The R&B star’s lengthy new record is rife with positivist, lush, classic R&B with a ’90s revisionist twist.

The trio’s third LP sticks to piledriving and fluid rhythms while stoking their flames of melody like never before.

Dylan once again reinvents himself for his first album of original songs since 2012.

Solitude, mortality, and ascendancy make “All Things Being Equal” an unearthly delight.

Together, Bowie and Pop all but forged a raw, sketchy, true alternative sound.

Gaga’s sixth album bathes her in issues of inclusivity—but did it have to make her sound like part of the crowd?

“Expect the Unexpected” pays homage to tradition and opens doors to unlimited perceptions.

The producer and songwriter-for-hire’s new project is mostly just a front for hanging out with Daniel Ledinsky.

Merritt talks Florian Schnieder, dates with Jesus, and writing songs under the 2:15 mark.

“Drip Drip Drip”is as unnervingly varied as most of the Mael brothers work—especially in the twenty-first century.

The new coffee table book on Roky Erickson’s band is out now via Anthology Editions.

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.