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

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.

Marianne Faithfull, Cast Your Fate to the Wind: The Complete UK Decca Recordings
Reissued for the first time in this six-CD box set are the British singer’s original Decca albums, along with a double LP of singles, B-sides, and rarities from the era.
A.D. Amorosi

The animated four-piece host the wildest, most guest-heavy apocalyptic party since “This Is the End.”

What we’re excited for on the third weekend of RSD’s pandemic-necessitated three-part event, ahead of its November Black Friday finale.

The industrial hip-hop group’s allegorical monsters are all too real on their latest LP.

Though recorded in a pre-pandemic setting last winter, “Letter to You” feels unusually safe.

The Kentucky-born-and-bred singer-songwriter is shutting down small-minded prejudices.

Garzón-Montano has created one of the most thought-provoking and atmospheric R&B albums of 2020.

The “Gimme Some Truth” box makes Lennon’s solo output sound better, brighter, and of a piece.

The mostly vocal album plucks from all that made the Sonic Youth dynamic so prickly and daring.

The Chilean-French artist moves from the screen and the page to the human body with his new film, “Psychomagic: A Healing Art.”

“New York” gets the deluxe box set treatment this week, while “Drella” gets a Record Store Day release three weeks later, a first on vinyl.

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

The composers of Janelle Monáe’s newest film discuss the project, as well as their origins in the Wondaland Arts Society.

The multifaceted songwriter discusses the amorphous “Gen Hoshino genre,” his new American audience, and his contribution to Dua Lipa’s new remix LP.

Neither of these jazz recordings is any less mysterious or magical just because they’re finally available at large.

The reason to invest in Super Deluxe “Soup” is the once-pricey “Brussels Affair” live bootleg.

This lot, quiet or loud, make for an exquisite vision of T. Rex.

The latest from the Lips is a peculiarly placid sound that only this collection of artists seem capable of making.

The Alice Coltrane–gifted pseudonym resurfaced for a third record, released last Friday.

RSD’s pandemic-necessitated three-part event kicks off this weekend—we talked to co-creator Michael Kurtz about what to expect, as well as preview twelve releases we’re excited for.

The record’s touching maturity doesn’t always jive with the wonton ways of its flaming musicality.