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

Wavves, Spun
The LA band’s eighth LP eschews distortion in favor of a cleaner pop-punk sound that both spotlights Nathan Williams’ songwriting chops and dulls the project’s compelling eccentricities.

Skegss, Top Heavy
Clashing with expectations, the rowdy Australian duo dive into an older, deeper, more refined sound with this EP that positions them as stronger musicians and storytellers.

Mister Romantic, What’s Not to Love?
John C. Reilly’s latest role as a lonely vaudevillian singer of Great American Songbook standards sees him unwrap each melody and lyric without irony or snarky dispatch.
Margaret Farrell

“Pain Is Beauty,” indeed.

The supergroup, including Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus, jumped on the track off Baker’s forthcoming album “Little Oblivions.”

Younge releases the title track of his forthcoming album and announces a multimedia project.

Alicia Bognanno covers “Dry” from Harvey’s 1993 album “Rid Of Me.”

How everyone from Phoebe Bridgers and Soccer Mommy to Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift found escape from this hell year in fantasy.

Jordana Nye continues to experiment with crunching rock, hip-hop, and jazz into enticing three-minute morsels.

The classic rock–indebted LP is a delicious blend of sugary pop and cathartic rock.

From her sharp delivery and bite-me bravado, Meg flexes at 150 percent on her debut album.

Felix Walworth’s third LP documents some of the most massive and complex sounds they’ve ever dreamed up.

Ben Shemie and Liam O’Neill talk covering Zappa, becoming a conceptual band, and the restrictions of the LP format.

The tracks on the Big Thief vocalist’s double album are warm and spacious with high ceilings.

Morby’s sixth album is both cosmic and terrestrial, with tracks seeped in death and change.

The two songwriters talk collaboration, inspiration, and fighting the good fight.

This debut LP illustrates enthralling production, thoughtful suspicion, and poetic compassion.

“Hannah” is a capsule of acceptance, frustration, and growth.

The Lawrence brothers fail to maintain any exciting spark that existed on their 2014 debut.

McEntire’s sophomore record is an album to escape into without being a delusional utopia.

The R&B songwriter’s album is for “the women who like to say what’s on their mind.”

“Skullcrusher” is an exciting, strange collection of songs from a new songwriter who showcases immense promise.

The EP marks the Colombian-Canadian songwriter’s first release since cutting ties with her major label.