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

Bruce Springsteen, Tracks II: The Lost Albums
This new box breaks down seven well-framed sets of sessions spanning 1983 to 2018, essentially designed as full-album capsules of mood previously deemed unfit for canonization.

Gelli Haha, Switcheroo
The songwriter’s debut is carefree, sleazy, fundamentally arresting dance music—a multi-sensory circus serving to wallpaper the halls of dance-pop history with neon, acid-tinged nonsense.

Wavves, Spun
The LA band’s eighth LP eschews distortion in favor of a cleaner pop-punk sound that both spotlights Nathan Williams’ songwriting chops and dulls the project’s compelling eccentricities.
Bee Delores

Ryan Coogler’s film undoubtedly proves that moviegoers are hungry for original stories made by Black filmmakers that go much further than skin-deep assessments of history and culture.

From Get Out to I Saw the TV Glow, the past decade has been rife with thought-provoking sociopolitical commentaries on issues of bigotry familiar to our current reality.

Chappell Roan
After a stratospheric year on the charts and dominating music festivals, the newly minted star may signal a vital turning point in how we treat and identify with celebrities.

Charting the history of the slasher archetype from Psycho and Peeping Tom in the 1960s to Adam Wingard’s much-needed revival of the horror subgenre in 2011.

With Miramax recently winning the bidding rights to the iconic horror franchise, here’s hoping its next chapter as a TV series takes some major risks.

With the actor/writer-director’s Barbie currently shattering box office records, we look back on Gerwig’s memorable supporting role in Ti West’s cult 2009 hit The House of the Devil.

The filmmakers behind recent titles such as Halloween Ends, Creep, and 2022’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot consider why slashers have become all the rage again.