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

Rebecca Black, Salvation
An intoxicating blend of Y2K aesthetics and bubblegum pop, Black’s second album is a celebration of her musical evolution from internet laughing stock to hyperpop powerhouse.

Hamilton Leithauser, This Side of the Island
The Walkmen vocalist finds an exquisite balance of raspy, lounge-lizard crooning and angsty art-rocking on a solo album full of distressed lyricism and black humor.

Lady Gaga, Mayhem
The pop star’s latest album is chaotic by design, blending elements from across her career to craft something you can dance to, swoon with, and don black eyeshadow for.
Jason P. Woodbury

2015. Boots Aquaria cover hi-res
There’s plenty of that same velvety lushness on his full-length solo debut, “AQUARIA,” but Boots is given more to menace than mystery on the album

2015. Bing & Ruth City Lake cover hi-res
On its own, “City Lake” is an enveloping listen.

Eugene Mirman // photo by Shawn Brackbill
The stand-up comedian (and the voice of Gene on Bob’s Burgers) tells us why his new box set is ninety-three discs shorter than he intended.

2015. Gun Outfit, “Dream All Over”
They’re as capable of drifting up into space as descending into the canyons, cosmic like a midnight drive.

2015. Girl Band HOlding Hands with Jamie cover
Though Girl Band spends the rest of the album matching “Umbongo” in volume and intensity, it never quite manages to equal that perfectly queasy equilibrium—push and pull, tension and release—with the same mastery.

Josh Gondelman // photo by Mindy Tucker
One of the minds behind Modern Seinfeld on what the deal is with making a fool of yourself on the Internet.

2015. Slayer Repentless cover. high-res
The lead up to Slayer’s eleventh album, “Repentless,” was as punishing as the thrash metal mainstay’s music.

2015. Deaf Wish Pain cover
“In my heart, there is blood. In my heart there is only blood,” Deaf Wish guitarist Sarah Hardiman intones at the beginning of “Dead Air,” the thrashing penultimate track of the band’s serviceable full-length Sub Pop debut, “Pain.”

Penelope Spheris
We chat with the legendary director about the reissue of her three-part documentary series, “The Decline of Western Civilization.”

2015. Jason Isbell, “Something More Than Free” cover
These days, Isbell sounds like a man determined not to lose the things he loves.

Meet the band deemed “too gay” for the outré ’70s.