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.
Katherine Yeske Taylor

Regarded as one of the most influential drummers in rock, The Police’s percussionist is reissuing his earliest work under the mysterious alter ego.

©Eugene Richards
Four decades since co-founding Erasure, Yazoo, and Depeche Mode, the synthpop innovator discusses finally going it alone with Songs of Silence—his debut record under his given name.

With a new best-of solo compilation and gorgeous guitar book out now, the guitarist reflects on his many accomplishments.

The alums of The Cure and Siouxsie & the Banshees discuss finding true freedom with their latest musical project alongside producer Jacknife Lee and a slate of familiar collaborators.

Neil Halstead discusses the pioneering shoegaze band’s first release in six years, an unabashedly optimistic look at the dark times it emerged from.

After three decades as an acclaimed songwriter, Case discusses her much-deserved career retrospective, which received a physical release last month.

Nearly 25 years into her renowned synthpop career, the Goldfrapp vocalist discusses launching her solo career with this effervescent debut.

Guitarist Daniel Ash explains how the group is re-emerging from the ashes of Bauhaus, this time with vinyl reissues and a set of US tour dates.

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Jason Williamson shares how the English post-punk duo continues to reveal our world’s darkest corners in a way that’ll make you dance on their unflinching 12th album UK Grim.

From veggie burgers and Moroccan coffee to hardcore-punk record shops, the Ukrainian punk takes us through a perfect day in his adopted hometown.