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

Melvin Van Peebles, Watermelon Man [Reissue]
The 1970 film’s OST is one long, funky collage moving jarringly from blues, jazz, honky-tonk, ragtime, rock, country, and R&B without distinction between the lines.

Florist, Florist
This self-titled LP is as close as an album can come to a kind of VR experience: alive, fluid, breathing in an artform that typically feels far more passive.

Beyonce Reveals the Cover Art to Seventh Studio Album Renaissance;
Credit: Beyoncé/Instagram;
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Beyoncé, Renaissance
Bey’s seventh solo album is about abandon and joy, something celebratory that hasn’t been in her music since 2006’s B’Day.
Juan Gutierrez

Ahead of their set at The Wiltern this weekend, electro-pop duo Megan James and Corin Roddick discuss how their music mutates alongside the meaning behind their lyrics.

At the onset of his first U.S. tour, the songwriter discusses his recent ARIA win, playing sets as a teen in local bars, and how Kafka is shaping his new material.

With the details for a film adaptation of her memoir “Crying in H Mart” coming together, Zauner shares how writing for film provides a new creative experience for her.

Nick Allbrook talks us through how changing urban landscapes in Australia shaped the group’s latest LP.

The songwriter discusses swapping his blues guitar for experimental beats on his fourth LP.

The East Coast rapper takes us behind the scenes of “Nehruvia: My Disregarded Thoughts.”

We caught up with violinist Brittney Parks in the midst of her first major tour.

The Chicago rapper talks managing duality while maintaining a vibe on his recent EP.