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

Preoccupations, Ill at Ease
The Calgary post-punks couldn’t sound more comfortable in their own skin on their ironically titled fifth album, which seamlessly alternates between joyful and haunting moods.

Provoker, Mausoleum
Production from Kenny Beats heightens the LA trio’s signature gloominess on their third album of mournful 19th century gothic narratives and mirthful 1980s horror nostalgia.

Various artists, True Names: A Benefit for Trans Youth
Worry Bead Records compiles tracks from Squirrel Flower, Remember Sports, 22° Halo, and more conjuring a wistful world of lo-fi elegance while raising funds for a very worthwhile cause.
Kyle Lemmon

Finn and Nicolay talk reveling in the six-piece setup, their passion for live residencies, and 8th album “Open Door Policy.”

“New Fragility” builds up a better framework for CYHSY as an Alec Ounsworth solo project.

The latest, truly masterful statement from Tamara Lindeman blooms beyond her Americana roots.

Much of the Pumpkins’ overstuffed 11th album is merely a faded approximation of ’90s rock.

The constant theme on Calexico’s new holiday album is friends and family celebrating the good times.

The group’s sixth album is a long exhale after the excited breathing and bare-chested songcraft heard on their last three records.

“The Ascension” is an unrelenting release that asks a lot of its listeners, but it gives back plenty as well.

The band’s sixth album sounds like a bigger, hi-fidelity bite of the “Sam’s Town” apple.

Sophie Allison follows up “color theory” with a compilation featuring Jay Som, SASAMI, and more.

The piano is the torch guiding Jones through the darkness on her eighth solo album.

Sumney brings shards of art rock, R&B, classical, electronic, jazz, and soul into one beautiful piece of musical kintsugi.

Thundercat continues to alchemize his inimitable style as a honeyed singer, whipsmart producer, and lithe bassist.

A track-by-track ranking of the album that made me realize it was OK to be anxious.

Mackenzie Scott has always been a sharp and economical lyricist with a variety of personas at her disposal.

The cousins discuss inverting genre tropes, their first embarrassing movie, and the evergreen influence of “Columbo.”

William Tyler // Modern Country
The Nashville guitarist continues his streak as an accomplished folk storyteller with or without words.

The Numero Group focuses its lens on the pivotal country music made between 1969 and 1980, when many smaller musicians were directly inspired by Gram Parsons and The Flying Burrito Brothers.

2016. La Sera, “Music for Listening to Music to”
This isn’t Music Appreciation 101.

2015. Wild Nothing, “Life of Pause” album art
Jack Tatum leans further into the synth-pop landscape than ever before on his third album as Wild Nothing, “Life of Pause.”

2016. Field Music Commontime cover hi-res
On “Commontime,” the brothers Brewis double down on this concept by settling into a few more, well, common time signatures alongside their usual pop-funk trappings.