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
Just Mustard, We Were Just Here
The Irish noise-rockers throw stones at their shoegaze glass castle on their third LP, a heavy-padded experiment in hypnosis that manages to channel a sense of euphoric mania.
Agriculture, The Spiritual Sound
The self-categorized “ecstatic black metal” outfit returns with a second album that’s just as singular and spectacular as their debut.
Alice Phoebe Lou, Oblivion
The South African indie-folk songwriter’s sixth album presents her at her most intimate and creative—yet still unknowable—as she traces the lines of isolation and transition.
Austin Nguyen
Harriette Pilbeam discusses how her second album leans into autobiography and restlessness.
If PinkPantheress found a sweet spot for nostalgia-tinted love letters, consider Missal her lusty foil with a smirking text for every lights-out sexual craving.
On her second EP, the British songwriter explores the warmth and intimate depths of negative space.
