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

Kronos Quartet + Mary Kouyoumdjian, Witness
Recorded in remembrance of the victims of the Armenian genocide, the quartet’s work with the documentarian-composer is at turns gorgeous, brutal, and awe-stricken.

Rebecca Black, Salvation
An intoxicating blend of Y2K aesthetics and bubblegum pop, Black’s second album is a celebration of her musical evolution from internet laughing stock to hyperpop powerhouse.

Hamilton Leithauser, This Side of the Island
The Walkmen vocalist finds an exquisite balance of raspy, lounge-lizard crooning and angsty art-rocking on a solo album full of distressed lyricism and black humor.
Mischa Pearlman

An exhilarating journey into one of contemporary music’s most inventive and eccentric bands.

While “Trouble Maker” is far from a political record, its songs certainly exist within the fragile framework of America in 2017.

Comprising eleven downtrodden, sunken-hearted, minor-chord songs, Big Thief’s sophomore album traverses the dark side of humanity, but pairs the despair with a ragged beauty.

A more than welcome addition to—and expansion of—the Hold Steady frontman’s catalog.

Everything Sleaford Mods say in these twelve songs is thoroughly valid and, frankly, needs to be said.

It’s not the second coming of “The Sophtware Slump.” But it also isn’t trying to be.

Singing the praises of the undersung singer-songwriter.

On his solo debut, the Ought frontman embarks on his own personal exploration of sounds and genres, ideas and influences.

The LA native’s debut is an escape route from Trump’s America into an alternative and rose-tinted reality.

The four members of The Menzingers have all hit their thirties. “After the Party” confronts that reality and all the realizations that come along with it.

The Arrival composer gives voice to an unlikely subject: himself.

Beyond the big hits, R.E.M.’s seventh album is a record full of nuances, a record that matched the quantity of units sold with the quality of its songwriting.

Natalie Mering’s newest release straddles the world we inhabit and the marvels we imagine beyond it.

Darkness and light battle it out in M.C. Taylor’s latest.

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On the whole, Beach Slang’s sheer joy at just being alive should bring a smile to the most cynical minds and the most jaded of hearts.

The minimalistic, ice-cold production of Splendor & Misery feels like it’s been pulled back into the present from the future.

The British duo venture across the Atlantic to work with Matthew E. White at his Spacebomb Studios.

“Joshy” / photo courtesy Lionsgate Premiere
Thomas Middleditch and half of your favorite comic actors come together for a non-bachelor party.

Deerhoof “The Magic”
For over two decades, Deerhoof has shown how far a little weirdness can go.

Cornelius “Fantasma” cover
Nearly two decades after its initial release, “Fantasma” remains just as far ahead of its time and as equally unclassifiable.