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

HEALTH, RAT WARS
The group’s fifth album continues to solidify their goth-industrial aesthetic while remaining first and foremost a pop album—albeit one wrapped in leather and spikes.

DJ Rashad, Double Cup [10th Anniversary Reissue]
Packaged with new artwork and a single bonus track, the main argument for this reissue’s existence is introducing Rashad to a new generation of dance, rap, electro, house, juke, and, yes, footwork fans.

Peter Gabriel, i/o
The broadly poetic tales of ordinary madness on the Genesis co-founder’s first LP of new original material in over two decades are often spare and daringly melodic.
Greg Cwik

Under the guise of disposable Netflix entertainment, the director’s latest film takes the trashy plot aspect of his career and slits it belly-open to show us what’s inside.

The tragic undertones of Brian De Palma’s 1976 adaptation of Stephen King’s debut horror novel are anchored by a staggering performance by the late Piper Laurie.

With FOX’s cult-classic sci-fi series debuting three decades ago this weekend, we look back at how its tension and technique felt ahead of its time for a mainstream TV audience.

As moviegoers today are smothered with an endless torrent of computer-spawned apocalyptic action, something this intimately human is a breath of fresh air.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One reminds us which movie stars Cruise feels most descendent from: Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Jackie Chan.

More scandalous than a flushing toilet, Richard Franklin’s intelligently written 1983 sequel to the Hitchcock horror classic never succumbs to the clichés its forebear established.

Eulogizing Bill Hader’s black comedy series, one of the most achingly human shows of the post-Sopranos era.

Despite the occasional flash of creativity, the latest installment in the Evil Dead franchise is a drab and self-serious outlier within Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell’s eccentric series.

The character actor with memorable roles in Saving Private Ryan, Natural Born Killers, and Heat passed away last week at 61.

Darren Aronofsky’s often-unpleasant adaptation of Samuel D. Hunter’s play is buoyed only by a beautifully empathetic performance by Brendan Fraser.