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

Bob Mould, Here We Go Crazy
Explicitly pitched as a response to the unrest of early 2025, the former Hüsker Dü leader’s first album in five years continues to confidently summon instant-earworm hooks and visceral thrills.

Vundabar, Surgery and Pleasure
The infectious Boston trio’s sixth album adds some complexity to their signature jangle with darker, rougher textures, though its lyrics don’t always live up to the music’s maturity level.

Alabaster DePlume, A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole
Informed by the dualities of harm and healing, the English saxophonist and poet weaves a tapestry of sounds—spiritual jazz, folk, classical, and beyond—into a potent missive of grace.
Mischa Pearlman

2015. Title Fight, “Hyperview”
By far Title Fight’s most melodic album yet, “Hyperview” offers up a whole new side of the group—still aggressive, but in a very different way.

2014. She & Him, “Classics” art
There is some heart on this album, but nowhere near enough soul.

Horse Feathers, So It Is With Us Cover, 2014
This fifth full-length is no different, with frontman and songwriter Justin Ringle leading the five-piece through ten tracks of sad majesty.

Dads, I’ll Be the Tornado Cover, 2014
Opener “Grand Edge, MI” starts off as a gentle, mournful lament before bursting into a bristling, tense existential anthem that’s all feedback guitars, crashing drums, and open wounds.

2014. Phil Selway, “Weatherhouse”
Anyway, the point is that this second solo album by Radiohead drummer Philip Selway does contain a good deal of heart.

2014. Robyn Hitchcock “The Man Upstairs” album art
Recorded and mixed in a week by legendary producer Joe Boyd (Pink Floyd, Nick Drake), Robyn Hitchcock’s latest LP—his twentieth solo record in a thirty-plus-year career—is a collection of covers and originals.

This third record from musical duo (and siblings) Angus & Julia Stone wasn’t meant to be.

2014. Drenge’s self-titled album art
Yet while the brothers’ compositions are monolithic—and almost monotone—in their post-grunge drudginess, they’re also full of verve.