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

Lorde, Virgin
The pop star retains the tainted-love throb of electro rhythm on a fourth LP that’s high on affection, low on gloss, and geared toward transcendence and sneaky sexuality.

Frankie Cosmos, Different Talking
Greta Kline’s sixth album finds her clicking with her new band, lending these songs a DIY quality reminiscent of her early demos despite digging into themes exclusive to adulthood.

BC Camplight, A Sober Conversation
The UK-via-NJ songwriter’s blackly comic neo-chamber-pop missive on sobriety still manages to speak to the upbeat without a snip of excess emotion.
Paul Veracka

Now 15 years into their career, the West Coast garage rockers discuss adding new dimensions to their sound on their latest LP, The Moon Is in the Wrong Place.

Chad Clark helms a reissue of his band’s earliest recordings, featuring some of the most left-field, catchy, and brilliant post-punk of the early aughts.

The songwriter discusses the importance of humor, collaboration, and exploration on his new album Heartmind.

Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and Tom Skinner enter the playground of experimental rock as a unit for the first time and establish themselves as a uniquely powerful force.

The ambient stalwart and prolific guitarist combine forces to create sweeping odes to the natural world, friendship, and the things that make no sense at all.

With her maturity and creative flexibility, Yanya uses knife-like precision to sculpt a record from intimate heartache.