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.
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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
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Sinai Vessel, I Sing
Caleb Cordes provides a thoughtfully nuanced thesis statement for his heartland indie-rock project as he paints a portrait of an artist working under the long shadow of late capitalism.
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BLK ODYSSY, 1-800-FANTASY
On his third showcase of vivid storytelling under the moniker, Juwan Elcock adds early 2000s pop-rock to his pre-established melting pot of R&B, hip-hop, funk, and jazz.
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Wand, Vertigo
The Cali psych-rockers offer tangible connections between their early, blazing garage bashers and later forays into more progressive terrain with their adventurously cohesive sixth LP.
Dustin Krcatovich
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Allison Crutchfield, Kyle Gilbride, and Jeff Bolt were just getting started when Swearin’ first called it quits. But then they said fuck all that and made something new.
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From his work in his local hardcore scene to his gentler solo efforts, the West Bay riffer continues to do things his own way.
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One of the world’s preeminent record collectors talks shop on the occasion of his new comp for Mexican Summer/Anthology, “Feel the Music Vol. 1.”
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Before peeling off to Joshua Tree to play at Desert Daze, Pedrum Siadatian talks the art of making covers.
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The architect of modernist music and his classically trained son take their playful improvisation to Joshua Tree.
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Eduardo Williams’s latest film reads like Linklater’s “Slacker” for the global post-Internet age.
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Trending up: huskies. Trending down: bull terriers.