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

Kylie Minogue, Tension
The electropop trailblazer’s 16th LP reignites her commitment to small reinventions in order to suit the modern pop landscape.

Vagabon, Sorry I Haven’t Called
Lætitia Tamko uses her third LP to process all of the mournfulness and ecstasy, excess and ennui of the past four years using the sounds she found in her escapes to nightclubs to cope.

yeule, softscars
The Singaporean songwriter and producer diverges from the predominantly gitchy stylings of their previous release and explores heavenly sounding guitar-based melodies.
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.