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
Midlake, A Bridge to Far
The Denton folk-rockers’ second album since returning from a hiatus flits effortlessly between psychedelic rock, folk, and hazy jazz as Eric Pulido continues to steer the ship forward.
Khruangbin, The Universe Smiles Upon You ii
Recorded on the 10th anniversary of their debut, the trio forgoes reliving past glories in favor of quietly ruminating on what’s gone on between these two points, detonating everything in sight.
Saintseneca, Highwallow & Supermoon Songs
The cosmic Ohio band’s sprawling fifth album represents the best of the late-’00s indie-folk scene, with Zac Little proving that he very much earns his suspenders.
Kevin Crandall
The 11 rock-out earworms chronicling depression and anxiety on the Tacoma-based group’s second LP are well worth the headache.
The Filipina-English artist’s Rick Rubin–produced third album provides a brutally realist introduction to the emotional maturation she’s undergone in the two years since her last LP.
On her studio debut, the Bronx rapper and it-girl of Gen Z’s Y2K aesthetic revivalism gives the impression of a young artist exploring her range.
The West Coast emcee shares how years of observing his TDE labelmates helped shape his new record, which was five years in the making.
On his final release with Def Jam, the Long Beach rapper builds upon his recent output to hone in on the darkness of his past while offering a glimpse into his healing process.
