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.
Paul Veracka
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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.
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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.
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The songwriter discusses the importance of humor, collaboration, and exploration on his new album Heartmind.
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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.
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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.
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With her maturity and creative flexibility, Yanya uses knife-like precision to sculpt a record from intimate heartache.