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
The Lemonheads, Love Chant
Evan Dando finds a middle ground between nostalgia and the present with his grunge-pop outfit’s latest LP, which isn’t any less messily melancholic than the project’s early-’90s peak.
The BLK LT$, Honey: The BLK LT$ Meets the Killa Bees
The engineer and producer hops back on the mic for an extended ode to Wu-Tang Clan, the group that’s fueled her passion for hip-hop since childhood.
My Morning Jacket, Z [20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]
Remastered and padded out with 14 outtakes and demos, this reissue of the Louisville band’s fourth LP celebrates their breakout moment of glorious, cosmos-reaching rock music.
Connor McInerney
The bonus LP of B-sides provides a sense of completion to Olsen’s “All Mirrors” era, although the set as whole feels a bit uneven.
The EP’s subject matter is thornier than past efforts’, leading to songwriting that pulls fewer punches.
DIRTY PROJECTORS
Longstreth also details his love of bossa nova and the ever-fluctuating definition of what Dirty Projectors really is.
Much of the signature grime has worn off, revealing an innovative—though not necessarily boundary pushing—shine.
