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

Röyksopp, True Electric
With the help of guest vocalists including Robyn, Fever Ray, and Alison Goldfrapp, these clubby studio versions of the Norwegian duo’s recent live set push them further into the flame.

Backxwash, Only Dust Remains
The Zambian-Canadian noise-rapper returns from a brief hiatus with an existentialist exploration of death, violence, and, ultimately, love, a textural letter to the downtrodden and the hopeless.

Bon Iver, SABLE, fABLE
Following the story of a budding romance that helps heal Justin Vernon’s past relationship wounds, the LP is a slick and polished expansion upon the EP he released last fall.
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.