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

Heatmiser, Mic City Sons [30th Anniversary Edition]
Extended to a two-album set, this anniversary remastering of Elliott Smith and Neil Gust’s post-hardcore band’s third and final statement features unreleased songs and demos.

Madeline Kenney, Kiss From the Balcony
Defined by its air thick with hopeful yearning, the Oakland-based songwriter continues to find comfort in doing things on her own with her fifth album.

Sly & the Family Stone, The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967
This unearthed 1967 live gig from Redwood City, California features raw, soulful R&B covers recorded with a roomful of memorable voices that audiences would soon grow to love.
Sam C. Mac

Pop hero to trap villain and back again.

The singer’s new suite of works—”Blonde,” “Endless,” and “Boys Don’t Cry”—exists on its own terms, turning his understanding of fluid identification into an aesthetic.

Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood in “Into the Forest”
The pair of female protagonists at the center of this apocalypse thriller provide the only wrinkle in an otherwise rote genre film.

Microbe and Gasoline / courtesy Screen Media Films
The once (and future?) visionary director returns with this strongest flick since 2008’s “Be Kind Rewind.”

Liam Hemsworth and Woody Harrelson in “The Duel” / photo courtesy of Lionsgate Premiere
Kieran Darcy-Smith ably connects the dilemmas of the present with the hewing of the western frontier. His resolution leaves something to be desired.

Kyle Chandler in season two of “Bloodline” / photo courtesy of Netflix
The first season of Netflix’s Kyle Chandler–led serial drama offset its idyllic setting with a story of white-knuckle familial tension. Now creators Glenn and Todd Kessler and Daniel Zelman are doubling down.