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

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.

Ethel Cain, Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You
The prequel to Preacher’s Daughter helps sprawl Hayden Silas Anhedönia’s narrative out even further while dialing up the intensity of her droning slowcore/shoegaze textures.

Osees, Abomination Revealed at Last
John Dwyer has crafted his most overtly political album yet in terms of both its lyrical and musical attack, with his band’s recent linear and pared-down punk style put to enjoyably cutthroat use.
A.D. Amorosi

Ernest Green discusses his new album “Purple Noon,” the French film that inspired it, and his newfound love for collaboration.

The 1970 set captures the band in full, frenetic death swoon.

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.