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

Rhys Langston, Pale Black Negative
The LA-based artist’s most comprehensive foray into genre abolition yet is a whirlwind of artistic exploration that sees the songwriter coloring well outside of hip-hop’s lines.

Subsonic Eye, Singapore Dreaming
The Singaporean indie rockers’ jangly fifth record proselytizes the beauty of the natural world, providing hope with deliriously catchy tunes that channel ’90s groups like Superchunk and GBV.

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Phantom Island
The Australian band’s growing comfort performing with orchestra musicians results in a bolder, brighter, more engaging, and more direct album than its predecessor.
Mike LeSuer

With the backing of his Freedom Band, the insatiable riffer introduces his caustic anthem to the bright Oregon sun.

With a return to the OCS ethos, “Memory of a Cut Off Head” is a full house notably lacking a garage.

The West Coast garage rock icon goes solo for Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound label on the forthcoming “Rod for Your Love,” grows nostalgic in video for first single.

Biography, allegory, and satire give voice to a severely misunderstood entity.

What we can learn about obsession, voyeurism, and coaxploitation from watching Jimmy Stewart watch TV.

Max Clarke teases his debut EP as Cut Worms.

Stuart Hyatt’s chiropteran (look it up) eighth album in the Field Works series arrives May 1.

Please join us March 8 at 5 p.m. for a special evening of food, drinks, screenings, and music in honor…

Roy Choi talks with Evan Kleiman, host of KCRW’s “Good Food.”