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

The New Pornographers, Continue as a Guest
The Canadian group’s ninth album builds off the adventurous power-pop sound floating around its predecessor while zooming in on themes of isolation and emotional upheaval.

Deerhoof, Miracle-Level
With 19 past full-lengths, their first studio recording with an outside producer proves, once again, that nothing can contain the noise-pop group’s sound and vision.

boygenius, the record
The songwriter supergroup’s full-length debut screams out its manic heartaches and unrolls stories with a quiet resonance—and just plain rips as an indie-rock record.
Greg Cwik

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.