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

Wisp, If Not Winter
Natalie Lu’s debut leans into the “pop” side of dream pop, exploring the double-edged sword of yearning with big builds and a combination of delicacy and pummeling sound.

The Armed, The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed
The Detroit punks’ sixth album is a consistent, melodic post-hardcore assault, maintaining a relentless pummeling in defiance to the system as much as it is to their recent pop streak.

OK Cool, Chit Chat
The Chicago duo pull the strings taut on their emo-pop debut, adding piano passages, guitar theatrics, and other flourishes to their established college-radio-rock sound.
Michael Frank

The model-turned-actress-turned-musician talks unlocking endless possibilities ahead of the release of her second LP, Memoir of a Sparklemuffin.

Cast in the role of Chris Paul in FX’s new series about the Donald Sterling scandal, the prolific actor shares how portraying a living public figure differs from his past work.

Ahead of his new Flannery O’Connor biopic Wildcat, we spoke with the filmmaker about getting lost in acting roles, directing his daughter Maya, and the impermanence of legacies.

The director’s first solo venture written alongside his wife Tricia Cooke sees him working in lighter tones, though the film’s quirks don’t equate to prolonged success.

Reteaming with The Favourite co-writer Tony McNamara, the Greek filmmaker’s latest endeavor is a spectacular visual splendor rooted in obvious, high-society humor.

With his long-anticipated second feature “The Nest” seeing a release this weekend, the director invites us into his cozy Santa Monica home.