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

Provoker, Mausoleum
Production from Kenny Beats heightens the LA trio’s signature gloominess on their third album of mournful 19th century gothic narratives and mirthful 1980s horror nostalgia.

Various artists, True Names: A Benefit for Trans Youth
Worry Bead Records compiles tracks from Squirrel Flower, Remember Sports, 22° Halo, and more conjuring a wistful world of lo-fi elegance while raising funds for a very worthwhile cause.

Beach Bunny, Tunnel Vision
On their third album, Chicago’s grungey power-pop outfit neatly balances present-day anxieties with wistful nostalgia while sagely ruminating on existential struggle and broader social themes.
Melanie Robinson

Grab your peach schnapps, put on some Air, and meet us under the bleachers—we’re talking about Sofia Coppola’s masterful feature directorial debut in honor of the film’s anniversary.

The film stands head and shoulders above many celebrations of music-as-ceremony like it in a lake of tantalizing fire.

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.