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
Just Mustard, We Were Just Here
The Irish noise-rockers throw stones at their shoegaze glass castle on their third LP, a heavy-padded experiment in hypnosis that manages to channel a sense of euphoric mania.
Agriculture, The Spiritual Sound
The self-categorized “ecstatic black metal” outfit returns with a second album that’s just as singular and spectacular as their debut.
Alice Phoebe Lou, Oblivion
The South African indie-folk songwriter’s sixth album presents her at her most intimate and creative—yet still unknowable—as she traces the lines of isolation and transition.
Matty Pywell
The London-based dance-pop icon’s fifth album can be seen as a manifesto for following your own instinct toward highs both material and physical.
The sixth LP from the evolving punk trio charts the story of a band who have become a family ready to heal the wounds found in their past.
We connected with the songwriter in London to discuss her first headlining set in the UK and her transitory new LP Honey.
The Australian songwriter talks boundaries, touring, and Jesus Christ Superstar.
Stuart Murdoch and Chris Geddes discuss the impact of COVID, spirituality, and everyday life on the band’s first new album in seven years.
The NYC-based trio discuss the experiments and newfound confidence contained within their third album.
Lindsey Jordan discusses her anticipated sophomore LP before it drops this Friday.
Mackenzie Scott discusses the seismic personal shift that led to the new sound on her latest record—and leaning into her “arena country” moment.
