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

The Black Keys, No Rain, No Flowers
The blues-rock duo sifts through wreckage in search of meaning and growth on their 13th album only to come up with answers that are every bit as pat and saccharine as the title suggests.

JID, God Does Like Ugly
After 15 years of writing and developing verses, the Dreamville rapper has become a master of the form on his fourth album as he finds resolution and comes to recognize his purpose.

Cory Hanson, I Love People
The Wand frontman’s fourth solo outing confronts American grift culture with hope and a communal spirit, as his backing players seem to prevent him from turning inward and catastrophizing.
Melanie Robinson

Michael Shanks’ directorial debut subverts expectations in hilariously inventive ways.

The film’s cinematographer discusses working with Ari Aster and an “electrifying” cast, as well as focusing on only shooting scripts with strong messages.

The third film in Danny Boyle’s unlikely zombie franchise manages a return that’s ambitious, bold, and visually stunning, though not without some minor flaws.

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.