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

Glare, Sunset Funeral
Transfixing from start to finish, the South Texas shoegazers’ debut is a dynamic, undulating audio portrait of the ups and downs of existence.

Perfume Genius, Glory
Backed by the incredible team he’s assembled over the years, Mike Hadreas’ seventh release is a folk album that remains as slippery, electrifying, and brilliantly unknowable as its lead single.

Gloin, All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)
On their second album, the Toronto band taps into the fury of their post-punk forebears with a polished set of psychological insights that feel angry in all the right ways.
Alejandro Rubio

Beach Goth header // photo by Natasha Aftandilians
Costumes, cosmic tunes, and getting carried away at the fourth annual gathering of the ghouls in Orange County.

Bryan Ferry, “Avonmore” cover, 2014.
The seersucker-clad crooner is back for his fifteenth solo release, and this time he’s enlisted the help of a few familiar, yet unexpected friends.

2014. Iceage, “Plowing into the Field of Love”
Moving up in production weight class is almost always a tough thing to pull off, but Iceage’s new album verifies that the group is willing to make that jump.

2014. Electric Wurms cover art
If anything, Musik simply exists as a precursor to everything Coyne and Drozd would and did do.