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

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.

Great Grandpa, Patience, Moonbeam
An experiment in more collaborative songwriting, the band’s highly ambitious first album in over five years truly shines when all of its layered ideas are given proper room to breathe.

Bryan Ferry & Amelia Barratt, Loose Talk
This ghostly collaborative album with spoken-word artist Barratt finds the Roxy Music leader digging his own crates for old demos and warped melodies that went unused until now.
Anya Jaremko-Greenwold

He’s been quietly uploading them on the New Beverly Cinema site.

Oh, to be a safely quarantined millionaire singing about having no possessions.

Ben Gibbard // Death Cab for Cutie // Hollywood Bowl // photo by Natasha Aftandilians
Music in the time of coronavirus.

The Big Ass Honky Tonk & Steakhouse is staying open despite warnings from the mayor.

FKA twigs / photo by Rozette Rago
“this is insane, i’m so honoured and so confused…”

The Canadian-Italian music video director on her career and second feature film, “The Turning.”

The triumphant return of mom’s spaghetti, and a lullaby for Martin Scorsese.
First he brought you Fyre Fest; now he wants to do your taxes.

Normcore never goes out of style.

And it ain’t cute. Who asked for this?

The filmmaker said he doesn’t need to actually watch “Joker”; he “gets it.”

Keep It Pics by Kim Newmoney for Crooked Media
Ira Madison III, Louis Virtel, + Aida Osman on nostalgia, Twitter, and 2019’s media landscape.

by Cindy Barrymore
No offense, Lizzo—but what the hell fits in there?

But how predatory was the song to begin with? A brief investigation.

Megan Thee Stallion is apparently a horror buff and aspiring screenwriter.

He’s been dissing them on Instagram.

He’ll be playing the villainous Riddler, who else?

Taylor Swift – Lover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BjZmE2gtdo
Credit: Taylor Swift/Youtube
We ranked ’em pre-“Lover,” so now it’s time for a follow-up.

Their newly announced streaming list of movies/TV is a nostalgia fever dream.

The rapper has officially distanced himself from his hit song with Robin Thicke.