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
Florence + the Machine, Everybody Scream
After recent big swings across the pop plate, Florence Welch’s gothic sixth album gets cerebral and probing as the songwriter proves herself to be more in touch with her emotions.
Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo, In the Earth Again
Destruction and decay may be the themes explored by the unlikely collaboration of a noise-rock band and a folk guitarist, but instrumentally, they make it sound beautiful, lush, and gentle.
Soft Cell, The Art of Falling Apart [Super Deluxe Edition]
This six-disc collection expands upon the aggression, industrialism, and pernicious lyrics of the duo’s 1983 LP—a revenge, of sorts, on becoming pin-up darlings of the British new wave.
Melanie Robinson
Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation is a film made not just by a fan of Mary Shelley’s work, but by someone who the story has lived inside of for an entire lifetime.
Mary Bronstein’s second feature film is eerie and dreamlike with wonderful moments of dark humor that permeate its undercurrent of dread.
In our latest digital cover story, the London quartet discuss coming into their own on their fourth album and major-label debut, The Clearing.
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.
