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

Bob Mould, Here We Go Crazy
Explicitly pitched as a response to the unrest of early 2025, the former Hüsker Dü leader’s first album in five years continues to confidently summon instant-earworm hooks and visceral thrills.

Vundabar, Surgery and Pleasure
The infectious Boston trio’s sixth album adds some complexity to their signature jangle with darker, rougher textures, though its lyrics don’t always live up to the music’s maturity level.

Alabaster DePlume, A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole
Informed by the dualities of harm and healing, the English saxophonist and poet weaves a tapestry of sounds—spiritual jazz, folk, classical, and beyond—into a potent missive of grace.
Daniel Harmon

2016. The Night Of screenshot
You’ll need to wait two full months before seeing the climax of HBO’s new series, but that doesn’t mean you have to wait to get your daily dose of great procedural entertainment.

Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler in “Armageddon”
Hot dogs, flags, and fireworks lose some of their appeal in light of the nativist hysteria gripping America at the moment, but this list will help you think America’s kind of great again.

“Game of Thrones” is striving admirably to carry its abundance of characters, territories, and plotlines. But it doesn’t have to.

Andy Samberg “Popstar”
First, a bit of context: I’m confident that I could watch eighty-six minutes of Lonely Island digital shorts and feel…

Psycho screenshot Janet Leigh in car
Pop cultural deaths that occurred back before death was cool.

Still from Le Mepris (aka Contempt) of Brigitte Bardot
Pop culture recommendations to aid with your blockbuster fatigue.

Pop culture recommendations to aid with your justified sense of inadequacy.

Wikipedia logo header
Two of our editors discuss their use (and abuse) of the online encyclopedia using the preferred forum of pop-culture enthusiasts everywhere: G-chat.

2016. Donald Trump, photo by Michael Vadon via Wikimedia Commons
Pop culture recommendations to aid in coping with the Donald.

Jeremy Saulnier / not credited
The “Green Room” director is slashing his way to the top.

Green Room / Patrick Stewart / photo by Scott Patrick Green Courtesy of A24
Even a slaughterhouse has its rules. But is that enough?

Midnight Special
Jeff Nichols’ latest film gamely shifts across genres without signaling.

2016. Kumail Nanjiani cred Ramona Rosales
The multi-hyphenate star of “Silicon Valley” joins us ahead of the show’s April 24 season premiere to discuss birthdays, podcasts, Donald Trump, and ketchup.

The Witch
The winner of the Director’s Award at last year’s Sundance burns slowly—and brightly.

Álvaro Enrigue / photo by Zony Maya
The New York–based writer plays tennis with history.

Anomalisa screengrab
Kaufman’s puppet-play allows us to find grace in the despair of everyday life.

“Hitchcock/Truffaut” trailer
A critic’s documentary about an iconic dialogue gives new life to old debates.

Macbeth screengrab
Supernatural terrors conspire with the evils of war in this bold new adaptation.

The film adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s novel burns quietly.

The celebrated British novelist returns with his followup to 2014’s “The Bone Clocks.”