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

Marissa Nadler, New Radiations
The gothic songwriter’s latest collection of bad-dream vignettes feels like a return to the mold she was cast in as she wrestles with the current state of her country through obscured lyrics.

The Black Keys, No Rain, No Flowers
The blues-rock duo sifts through wreckage in search of meaning and growth on their 13th album only to come up with answers that are every bit as pat and saccharine as the title suggests.

JID, God Does Like Ugly
After 15 years of writing and developing verses, the Dreamville rapper has become a master of the form on his fourth album as he finds resolution and comes to recognize his purpose.
Bryan Reesman

With his photo exhibit documenting the band’s live show between 1994 and 1996 landing in LA between March 6 and 9, Rach looks back on that exciting and turbulent moment in NIN’s career.

The musical comedian discusses The Illustrated Al, the new graphic novel anthology inspired by his songs, as well as his lifelong love for MAD magazine.

As the LA-based rockers tour their new LP She Said, their animated frontperson lists seven spooky-season movies that get under her skin.

Founder Yongman Kim discusses the pioneering video store’s revival at its new home in Lower Manhattan’s Alamo Drafthouse.

The pair discuss collaborating on the astral four-album series.