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The Los Angeles Issue

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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Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell [10th Anniversary Edition]

Padded out with a personal essay, family photos, and outtakes, this re-release of Stevens’ album-length eulogy permits yet another return to the 1980s Oregon of the artist’s memory.

Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles

Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.

Cola Boyy, Quit to Play Chess

Despite bristling with Matthew Urango’s familiar cotton-candied disco, the late songwriter and activist’s sophomore album also opens the floodgates to everything else he seemed capable of.
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A Future of Progress: Past, Present, and Hendrix

Pop hero to trap villain and back again.

March 14, 2017
Kinds of Crying: On Identity and Frank Ocean’s Three Versions

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.

September 16, 2016

Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood in “Into the Forest”

Film + TVReviews
Timber: “Into the Forest” Fails to Do Enough with Its Strong Premise

The pair of female protagonists at the center of this apocalypse thriller provide the only wrinkle in an otherwise rote genre film.

August 19, 2016

Microbe and Gasoline / courtesy Screen Media Films

Film + TVReviews
Le Retour: “Microbe and Gasoline” is Michel Gondry’s Best in Years

The once (and future?) visionary director returns with this strongest flick since 2008’s “Be Kind Rewind.”

July 01, 2016

Liam Hemsworth and Woody Harrelson in “The Duel” / photo courtesy of Lionsgate Premiere

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Draw: “The Duel” Asks Heavy Questions, Offers Light Answers

Kieran Darcy-Smith ably connects the dilemmas of the present with the hewing of the western frontier. His resolution leaves something to be desired.

June 24, 2016

Kyle Chandler in season two of “Bloodline” / photo courtesy of Netflix

Film + TV
The Keys: Wading into the Swamp of “Bloodline”’s Second Season with the Show’s Creators

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.

May 19, 2016
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