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.
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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
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Sinai Vessel, I Sing
Caleb Cordes provides a thoughtfully nuanced thesis statement for his heartland indie-rock project as he paints a portrait of an artist working under the long shadow of late capitalism.
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BLK ODYSSY, 1-800-FANTASY
On his third showcase of vivid storytelling under the moniker, Juwan Elcock adds early 2000s pop-rock to his pre-established melting pot of R&B, hip-hop, funk, and jazz.
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Wand, Vertigo
The Cali psych-rockers offer tangible connections between their early, blazing garage bashers and later forays into more progressive terrain with their adventurously cohesive sixth LP.
Nedelle Torrisi
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Nedelle hooks up with YACHT’s Claire L. Evans and Jona Bechtolt to talk artistic—and romantic—collaboration.
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Advice From Paradise
This week: being attracted to your ideological opposite and sharing a bed with your flatmate.
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Advice From Paradise
This week: falling in love with your best friend and navigating an accidental one-night stand.
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Advice From Paradise
This week: fighting the depression that comes with the end of a relationship and how to tell whether all a guy wants is sex.
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Nedelle tackles sexting—with a little help from Nick Diamonds of Islands and The Unicorns.
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Advice From Paradise
This week: confronting same-sex attraction and what to do if your boyfriend won’t let you see his phone.
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Advice From Paradise
This week: making out with your cousin’s boyfriend and learning how to fall in love.
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Advice From Paradise
This week: how to cope with deciding not to date, and forming platonic relationships.
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Advice From Paradise
This week: Meeting new people, getting back into the dating game, and a few bonus recommendations.
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Advice From Paradise
This week: avoiding the friend zone, a new lover’s obnoxious tics, and a younger man.
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This week: A very special video edition of our bi-weekly advice column.
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Advice From Paradise
This week: Mending a long-term relationship, contacting an ex that bailed, and keeping secrets with a new partner.
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Advice From Paradise
This week: ASSes, jealousy in the beginning of a relationship, and taking the leap to asking your crush out.
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Advice From Paradise
This week: going above-and-beyond in the Internet age, getting blindsided by your “soul mate,” and starting a relationship with short-term barriers.
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Advice From Paradise
This week: misreading the signs, mixed messages, and overcoming personality differences.
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Advice From Paradise
This week: being haunted by your significant other’s romantic past, dating someone who’s frequently on the road, and should you stay or should you go?
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Advice From Paradise
This week: learning how to live with your parents again, crafting the best online dating profile, and weighing the pros and cons of “the rebound.”
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Advice From Paradise
This week: reconnecting with the past, a new love interest with past hang-ups, plus of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes weighs in on long-distance relationships.
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Advice From Paradise
This week: how open should you be at the very beginning of a relationship, getting strung along by someone who just might not be that into you, and what to do when your brand-new love interest recently got laid off.