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

Hamilton Leithauser, This Side of the Island
The Walkmen vocalist finds an exquisite balance of raspy, lounge-lizard crooning and angsty art-rocking on a solo album full of distressed lyricism and black humor.

Lady Gaga, Mayhem
The pop star’s latest album is chaotic by design, blending elements from across her career to craft something you can dance to, swoon with, and don black eyeshadow for.

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.
Melanie Robinson

Entering its third season after a Valentine’s Day premiere, the Showtime series—as with many suboptimal situations—descends into cannibalism.

Gia Coppola’s new Pamela Anderson–led feature is much more than just a meditation on aging under harsh stage lights—although it is undeniably also that.

The Challengers director’s second film of 2024 brings a much needed excess of style, humor, and sexuality to an otherwise tepid William S. Burroughs adaptation.

Revisiting the profundity and shortcomings of the bayou-soaked buddy-cop crime-drama a decade later.

The Minnesota-based indie-pop quartet walk us track by track through their impeccably titled fourth record, out now via Psychic Hotline.

The final installment of Ti West’s slasher trilogy features moments of grotesquery, spectacle, and levity—but most importantly, it’s damn fun to watch.

With his second album out now, Sven Gamsky talks collaboration, fame, and knowing when a song’s reached its final form.

Descending upon LA this Thursday and running through May 12, here’s a guide to some of the hidden gems among the event’s lineup.

With Beyoncé’s yeehaw era launching this week, we explore the genre’s long-suppressed and -overwritten history of Black performance.