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

FKA twigs, Eusexua
The visionary artist’s third album embraces rave culture for all of its angels and demons, though the ego-defying journey may be riddled with moments of internal conflict that rupture its matrix.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Perfect Right Now: A Slumberland Collection 2008-2010
Ahead of their reunion tour, the cult indie-pop band resurrects lost classics from the bittersweet era of nostalgia that encircled their eponymous 2009 debut.

Paul Robeson, Voice of Freedom: His Complete Columbia, RCA, HMV and Victor Recordings
This 14-CD collection remastering the legendary bass-baritone vocalist, stentorian actor, and civil rights advocate’s work is a crucial cultural tome of both spiritual and earthly sensuality.
Sadie Sartini Garner

In a year that’s gone off the rails, “Ohms” proves the alt-metal rockers’ ultimate act of resistance.

The author and philosopher (and former professional inline skater) tells us what it is to be awesome, and how to live with the power of awesomeness inside you.

In the post-Trump world, everyone has an obligation to be political. But that doesn’t mean that we still don’t want to dance. Miguel and Nadya Tolokonnikova are figuring out how to do both.

The quintessential rock-and-roller died Monday at the age of sixty-six.

From 2015’s “Dust and Disquiet.”

Like Jonny Greenwood and Shye Ben Tzur’s “Junun,” this is music that uses rhythm and repetition—and strategic departures from both—as ways of generating and shaping power; it is a suggestion of community.

Great record collectors make great records. Uh, sometimes.

Hundred Waters and Moses Sumney’s fourth-annual gathering reimagines what a music festival can be.

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Their audience didn’t understand them. Their label didn’t want to talk to them. Not to worry: For the Beastie Boys, it was a brand-new morning.

The confessional Nashville experimentalist delivers a pair of standouts from last year’s The Generation of Lift EP on a gray Icelandic morning.

Comedy—and particularly political comedy—only reinforces our bubbles. So what?

Tinariwen / photo by Marie Planeille
The Tuareg guitar masters return with “Elwan” on February 10.

“Throughout our history the state has presented the rationale that freedom is not free…. This song is an anti-thesis to that ideological fallacy.”

NE-HI / photo by Bryan Allen Lamb
The Chicago quartet head out of the garage in search of whatever comes next.

From québécois kraut-funk to the return of two of indie rock’s most celebrated sidemen, these are the unsung albums we’re most excited for this year.

photo by Stevan Alcala
The Austin ten-piece get an assist from the production work of Chris “Frenchie” Smith.

Futurebirds / photo by Anthony Pidgeon
The latest from the Oregon festival’s 2016–2017 season.

The Silver Lake Chorus / photo by Lehua Noelle
The LA group take on Sufjan Stevens’s frosty classic.

photo by Christophe Pastel
The African electronica auteur’s semi-self-titled album Alan Abrahams dropped in August.

photo by Brian Pritchard
The Fresh & Onlys frontman is releasing “Luck Man” on January 27.