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
Luke Temple’s single weaves a narrative through Auto-Tune and programmed instrumentation.
Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, and Deftones are among the groups that influenced BM’s latest record.
The visual for El-P and Killer Mike’s new anthem is an anti-capitalist utopia.
“Bees are not good,” Stefan Babcock screams as we celebrate the first PUP single of 2020.
Former Tigers Jaw members Adam McIlwee, Dennis Mishko, and Pat Brier go cow punk.
The LA grunge band’s latest single was produced by Illuminati Hotties’ Sarah Tudzin.
The rainy homemade visual accompanies their second single from “PSA.”
The West Coast punks offer up a blistering quarantine-minded single.
The SLC dream pop crew share the sugary third single from “Gathering Swans.”
The “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” comedian reveals just how much she’s thought about caffeine this past year.
It’s the second single Conor Oberst and his band have shared since 2011.
Guitarist Ryan Hahn shares a few tracks the band leaned on while penning their “Violet Street” single.
The LA collective’s latest single with Colleen Green is the third sample from “Pickles & Pies.”
Maria Jacobson joins the Chicago band on their hazy 4/20 single.
The Montreal psych band share a colorful visual for their latest single.
The Medium page features editorials on healthcare workers and others on the front line.
The all-too-relatable clip accompanies the Chicago band’s second single from “Just Look at That Sky.”
The New Zealand songwriter’s recent single gets a wonky visual.
The all-star experimental collective shares the second single from “NOUS III.”
It’s the soft rock band’s debut for Run for Cover Records, and it’s out June 12.
