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

Pulp, More
The Sheffield art rock ensemble’s first album in nearly 24 years still maintains their Kinks-y kitchen sink dramatics in opposition to Oasis’ Beatles-like demeanor and Blur’s operatic Who-ness.

Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell [10th Anniversary Edition]
Padded out with a personal essay, family photos, and outtakes, this re-release of Stevens’ album-length eulogy permits yet another return to the 1980s Oregon of the artist’s memory.

Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.
Bailey Pennick

2014. Wildcat! Wildcat!, “No Moon at All” album art
For their debut full-length, No Moon at All, Los Angeles trio Wildcat! Wildcat! skipped the sand and headed straight for nighttime adventures, full of bright lights and car stereo systems.

from The Voyager, 2014; photo credit Autumn De Wilde
The Los Angeles songstress goes through the tracks on her new solo record, The Voyager; plus, killing her darlings,working with Beck and Ryan Adams, and what “Wonderwall” has to do with it.

2014 Alvvays self-titled album art
There’s something about a melancholy message presented in the sweetest packaging that makes that sadness even more heartbreaking.

2014 Interpol press photo by Eliot Lee Hazel
Last month we shared a live video of Interpol performing a brand new song from El Pintor in London. Today…

2014. She & Him press photo by Autumn de Wilde
The undeniably sweet (and oh so catchy) duo of Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, better known as She & Him,…

2014 press photo of Wildcat! Wildcat!
Having Morgan Kibby (M83, White Sea) co-produce your debut full-length can do wonders for your budding sound. At least, that…

2014 promo photo for new Coke product
Here’s what Coke’s stevia-sweetened “Coca-Cola Life” looks like. Green means healthy right? (via Business Insider)

2014
After much speculation (probably too much if you really think about it), today online shopping behemoth, Amazon, announced Fire phone—its…