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 Rolling Stones, Black and Blue [Super Deluxe Edition]
The group’s 1976 musical chairs of lead guitarists is rarely cited as anyone’s favorite Stones album, though this package reminds us that it’s among their most alive and spontaneous.
The Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness [30th Anniversary Edition]
Rising above the odd brand partnerships it came paired with, this opulent quadruple-LP reissue builds off of the already-expansive source material with unearthed live recordings from the band’s creative prime.
The Notwist, Magnificent Fall
This non-chronological batch of remixes and other rarities regales in the utter joy of what must be in the brothers Achers’ heads when they spin gorgeous alchemical gold.
Mike LeSuer
Rural Italy’s impish garage rock trio opt for misfit royalty over biscuits and loyalty in their cosmic new video.
Young Fathers’ newest addition to their stellar catalog is no exception—but there’s still one key question that needs to be addressed.
As the era of conscious backpack rap fades, Brian Immanuel’s debut “Amen” hints at a new wave of overly-self-conscious, Internet-savvy fanny pack rap.
Commemorating Animal Collective’s earnest stab at moving popular rock music forward and the nine bands that should be dictating the sounds of 2018.
Counting off five Hammers that are just so hyped.
Ruben Zarate’s surf pop project teases their yet-unannounced sophomore album with a new R&B-leaning single.
DC punk’s holiest emissaries belt out the cut from last year’s “Nothing Feels Natural.”
Just when you thought you could pigeonhole Ty Segall into just one entire decade of music.
Somewhere between Cage’s LaBeouf-directed “I Never Knew You” video and Brockhampton’s formation on a Kanye forum, something shifted. That something was almost definitely “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.”
The sludgy Boston three-piece offers up another preview of their forthcoming “Universal Care.”
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.”
