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

Neil Young, Coastal: The Soundtrack
Documenting his 2023 tour, Young’s umpteenth live album both simplifies the noise of Crazy Horse’s recent recordings and solidly renders familiar hits in a solo setting.

Adrian Younge, Something About April III
The third and final installment of his vintage psych-soul trilogy sees the songwriter bring the large history of Brazil into a tight narrative revolving around young love and class struggle.

Julien Baker & TORRES, Send a Prayer My Way
Baker and Mackenzie Scott’s debut pop-country collaboration is made up of a nuanced and emotionally kinetic set of hangdog story-songs that wear their nudie suits with pride.
Mac Pogue

Junior Boys Big Black Coat cover
Junior Boys know how to maintain their inexplicable sense of cool—all it takes is the right amount of withholding.

2016. Bonnie Prince Billy, “Pond Scum”
“Pond Scum”’s bare aesthetic sounds a bit like Oldham wandered in front of a microphone at the BBC studios.

Okkervil River in 2004 / photo by Farley Bookout
The Okkervil River frontman looks back at his band’s breakthrough LP ten years later.

2015. Deerhoof Fever 121614 cover hi-res
What are live albums for, anyway?

Oneohtrix Point Never — Garden of Delete cover
Oneohtrix Point Never revels in making music that surfaces elements of humanity hidden within the mundane detritus of our culture machine.

2015. Spray Paint Dopers cover hi-res
West Coast noisy garage maven Chris Woodhouse recorded “Dopers,” sanding down some of their previous records’ rough edges in order to emphasize others.