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

Glare, Sunset Funeral
Transfixing from start to finish, the South Texas shoegazers’ debut is a dynamic, undulating audio portrait of the ups and downs of existence.

Perfume Genius, Glory
Backed by the incredible team he’s assembled over the years, Mike Hadreas’ seventh release is a folk album that remains as slippery, electrifying, and brilliantly unknowable as its lead single.

Gloin, All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)
On their second album, the Toronto band taps into the fury of their post-punk forebears with a polished set of psychological insights that feel angry in all the right ways.
Erin Hickey

But don’t expect it to abandon the Marvel formula.

The “Stoker” director returns with a complex, compelling (and carnal) genre tour.

Marvel’s Luke Cage
Netflix’s latest foray into the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a high point for both the streaming service and the MCU as a whole.

Simon Barrett and Adam Wingard’s sequel does right by the 1999 original, but doesn’t go much farther.

Suicide Squad photo / photo by Clay Enos / Warner Brothers
“Suicide Squad”‘s casting and budget can’t make up for a lack of story and emotional depth.

Ghostbusters promo still. Courtesy Sony Pictures
The issue of treading on hallowed ground aside, Paul Feig’s latest delivers exactly what it promises.

It’s not a Cap vs. Iron Man world after all.

Key and Peele “Keanu”
The first film offering from one of the best comedic duos of the past decade is a victim of its own format.

Everybody Wants Some
Richard Linklater comes home again.

Ethan Hawke “Born to Be Blue”
Robert Budreau’s biopic is a love story of a different kind.

Deadpool / photo courtesy Twentieth Century Fox
Director Tim Miller grounds dated violence and lowbrow humor in a thoroughly modern world.

Steve Carell in The Big Short
Adam McKay lightens dense subject matter with his comedic sensibilities.

Bryan Cranston in Trumbo
The screenwriter biopic continues the grand tradition of Tinseltown tooting its own horn but ditches the self-importance.

Spectre trailer screengrab
Mendes and Craig phone in the “Skyfall” follow-up.

Crimson Peak trailer screengrab
Guillermo del Toro’s gothic haunted house flick is more dead than alive.

Sicario trailer screengrab
Denis Villeneuve’s attempt to stay neutral hurts an otherwise great film.

2015. “The Visit” trailer
“The Visit” is M. Night Shyamalan’s best film in fifteen years.

The Man from UNCLE screen grab
Guy Ritchie’s adaptation of 1960s television show “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” falls flat.

Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel in “The End of the Tour”
“The End of the Tour” honors David Foster Wallace by making him feel like a real person.

Paul Rudd in Ant-Man
Low on action and high on exposition, Marvel’s Ant-Man is pretty much the antithesis of Avengers: Age of Ultron; tone-wise,…