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

Bob Mould, Here We Go Crazy
Explicitly pitched as a response to the unrest of early 2025, the former Hüsker Dü leader’s first album in five years continues to confidently summon instant-earworm hooks and visceral thrills.

Vundabar, Surgery and Pleasure
The infectious Boston trio’s sixth album adds some complexity to their signature jangle with darker, rougher textures, though its lyrics don’t always live up to the music’s maturity level.

Alabaster DePlume, A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole
Informed by the dualities of harm and healing, the English saxophonist and poet weaves a tapestry of sounds—spiritual jazz, folk, classical, and beyond—into a potent missive of grace.
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.