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

Lorde, Virgin
The pop star retains the tainted-love throb of electro rhythm on a fourth LP that’s high on affection, low on gloss, and geared toward transcendence and sneaky sexuality.

Frankie Cosmos, Different Talking
Greta Kline’s sixth album finds her clicking with her new band, lending these songs a DIY quality reminiscent of her early demos despite digging into themes exclusive to adulthood.

BC Camplight, A Sober Conversation
The UK-via-NJ songwriter’s blackly comic neo-chamber-pop missive on sobriety still manages to speak to the upbeat without a snip of excess emotion.
Lydia Pudzianowski

With darkness encircling the nation, what better time to get lost in our southernmost major city?

If it feels like you’ve heard the lyrics on “Slugger” somewhere before, it’s probably because you’re a woman and you’ve thought them all.

The LA duo and comedian Liza Treyger talk crocheting caps for the Red Hot Chili Peppers and taking babies on tour.

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For the married duo behind the Charleston, South Carolina, Americana act, there is no line between music and life.

These dudes could blow smoke right in your face, and you’d just have to sit there, groovin’ on it.

The mysterious Aussie singer-songwriter channels Suicide, Nick Cave, and David Lynch on Secretly Canadian’s re-release of his 2014 debut.

Happy Diving “Electric Soul Unity”
Oakland unity metal with a splash of sunshine.

The only Brooklyn post-punk quartet with a yakety sax and a devotion to Japanese disco are ready to offer you a dose of “Convenience.”

photo by Catie Laffoon
With a strong debut EP to their name, the LA trio MUNA are ready to get serious.

This ain’t no recap, it’s a reenactment.

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It’s got no place else to be, and it’s happy to be here.

Insane Clown Posse / photo courtesy of Psychopathic Records
In his new book “Juggalo,” Steve Miller grapples with what it means to be a fan of the most hated band in the world.

Lucy Dacus “No Burden”
“No Burden” is what would happen if your quietest, most thoughtful friend from college ran her journal through an electric guitar and a distortion pedal.

Given who’s involved here, there was no doubting that “case/lang/veirs” would be powerful. The only question is how they’d choose to use their power.

Xenia Rubinos // “Black Terry Cat” cover
There are hints of Judy Garland and Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu, but Xenia Rubinos has created something all her own with her second album.

2016. Whitney Light Upon the Lake hi-res
“Light Upon the Lake” is, understandably, an album about breakups and the many forms they take.

Kristin Kontrol / X-Communicate cover
Like Robyn’s “Body Talk,” the solo debut from the erstwhile Dum Dum Girl is packed full of dreamy synth-pop that’s far from shallow.

The Chicago quintet may want you, but they don’t need you.

The LA-based illustrator turned heads last summer when he reimagined the outcome of a shocking incident of police brutality. With his debut book of illustrations, “B.R.U.H.,” he’s taking things even further.

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever / photo by Jamieson Moore
The Aussie jangle-punk quintet harness the daylight on their just-released mini-LP “Talk Tight.”