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
The title track arrives ahead of Randall Taylor’s latest collection of ambient drone, due out April 2 on The Flenser.
The latest collection of bedroom pop recordings from Aaron Powell arrives April 23 via Orchid Tapes.
Michael Doherty tells us what inspired the group’s Run for Cover debut.
The band formerly known as Shin Guard explain their shift in sound on the project’s four songs.
The song from his forthcoming debut record is “a ballad for people that want to watch it burn.”
“Blah” sets the stage for the jazzy no wave group’s latest LP, out April 23 via Ramp Local.
The duo share the Black History Month anthem from their forthcoming collaboration “Of Process and Progression.”
The Asheville-based songwriter’s new project will drop March 19.
The UK rapper’s origin-story prequel experiments with earnest beauty while still feeling like a prank.
The single will appear on the Kalbells’ sophomore album “Max Heart.”
The “Prisyn” track receives a somnambulistic video from director Bobby Cochran.
The Fijian rapper shares 10 songs that helped shape her bold style.
The Madrid-based songwriter shares the latest from his debut album “None But Everyone,” which arrives next month.
It’s the latest single from the duo’s upcoming “In a Deep and Dreamless Sleep.”
The Melbourne-based songwriter dives into the trauma, sexuality, and humor of her latest record.
The tracks will appear on the Norwegian hip-hop duo’s forthcoming LP “Dialogue.”
The hip-hop duo’s first record in nearly a decade features verses from Aesop Rock, R.A.P. Ferreira, Homeboy Sandman, and more.
The ceaseless bummer that was 2020 didn’t kill the NJ-bred punks’ creative spark.
Carpenter accomplishes a meditative dread he avoided as a filmmaker on his latest “Lost Themes” installment.
The month’s most discourse-worthy singles, according to our Senior Editor.
