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

Saint Etienne, International
The London trio go out with a loud, still chic-sounding bang—their final album is a party bus filled with old friends, new pals, and fresh, glittering sounds for a proper send-off.

Jobber, Jobber to the Stars
With its 11 catchy grunge-pop tunes each referencing pro-wrestling culture, the Brooklyn band’s full-length debut prioritizes fun in its escapist return to the slacker-rock charm of the ’90s.

The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, Dreams of Being Dust
The heaviness of the emo/post-rock outfit’s fifth and most metallic album isn’t just in the music this time around—it’s also in the words, themes, and intent of the record.
Michael Wojtas

Perhaps it has something to do with her intimate understanding of shoegaze’s moody fluctuations (as seen within her previous releases), but there’s a disturbing danger inherent to “Cranekiss.”

2015. The Woolen Men Temporary Monument cover med-res
If a public demonstration is too timid to draw a crowd, does that mean it’s just a tantrum?