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

Ezra Furman, Goodbye Small Head
A glitchy folk-punk opera like a pastoral take on Lou Reed’s Berlin, the songwriter’s quivering-yet-empowered latest sees her knocked down—but never knocked out.

Youth Code, Yours, with Malice
The EBM duo continues to test new waters with their debut EP for metalcore label Sumerian, inviting experimentation on each of these five bone-rattling recordings.

Kali Uchis, Sincerely,
Moving from the synth-dembow-pop of last year’s Orquídeas to dreamy neo-soul, her fifth album sees Uchis adapt the tripling axis of joy, pain, and existential dilemma into cloudy song.
Mischa Pearlman

Beneath the facepalm titles on the band’s third full-length lie songs full of heart, purpose, and meaning.

Chris Simpson also talks the past, present, and future of the band in a Q&A about his accompanying vinyl reissue project.

The third full-length from Jack Antonoff feels devoid of heart and soul, fizzling and fading forgettably into the background.

The Daughters vocalist’s solo debut captures the collapse of society over the course of a tormented, uneven 9 tracks.

The posthumous debut from the New Hollywood actress is an album of ghosts and haunted hearts.

There’s still darkness present on the noise rock band’s latest EP, but it’s more of a shadow than an abyss.

The songwriter’s new collection of drawings is a practical, humorous, and irreverent guide to overcoming his (and, by extension, our) anxieties and depression.

While often an uneven mess of sound, there are some real gems to be found on this DC Comics compilation.

The debut LP from the At the Drive-In co-founder tussles with indie-pop and boisterous stadium rock.

The ska-punk collective finds itself as boisterous, relevant, and energetic as ever before on their new EP.

The songwriter/visual artist discusses 11 pieces that tie into the fictional Whispering Pines universe.

Hatfield’s 17th collection of original solo material is a fever dream entirely of the indie legend’s own creation.

While this homage to hard rock isn’t a return to the great heights the band has scaled in the past, it’s also far removed from the valleys they’ve trudged through.

There’s a loose recklessness to these classic alt-rock melodies that convey being stuck in a rut—but also the determination to get out of it.

The French prog metal collective’s seventh album is a tornado of blastbeats, guttural growls, and devilish incantations.

In a Q&A, the London-based artist shared their thoughts on the classical new single, transness, and the duality of identity.

Helen Ballentine’s sophomore EP is just as resplendent and poignant as that first release.

On the outfit’s second LP, Jenn Wasner refrains from giving in entirely to obvious melodies and instrumentation.

A quarter of a decade on, the band’s debut remains a worthy companion for both aimless road trips and personal crossroads.

This self-titled debut draws on the members’ vast pool of experience, as well as the chemistry of their intertwined personal lives.