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.
Scott T. Sterling
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Watch a vintage video of Bowie talking to reporters after his March 1976 arraignment.
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Radiohead at Lollapalooza 2016 / photo by James Richards IV
Thom Yorke and company promise not to save any of your information in the process.
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Outkast / Photo by Alan Sartirana
The OutKast rapper posted the recipe in support of Meals on Wheels Atlanta.
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In a year unlike any other, music of the past was eerily present (and prescient).
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Tyler, the Creator and Tinashe guest on the Compton artist’s reaction to, well, everything.
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The shell of a Nine Inch Nails synth and Eddie Van Halen’s axe also found new homes.
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Foo Fighters and Mexican eatery Casa Vega are collaborating to help local restaurant workers.
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Cave chooses artistic integrity over listener sensitivity.
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Head into the weekend with the new collab, as well as a new single from Local Natives’ Kelcey Ayer.
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Along with announcing the event’s lineup, Danny shares a video for the “uknowhatimsayin¿” single “Savage Nomad.”
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Dolly Parton (album cover)
The country icon invested $1 million into saving lives.
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The Austin-based guitarist used the moment to make a powerful Black Lives Matter statement.
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Groups like The Specials, The Beat, and The Selector are remembered in a yet-to-be-titled series from “Peaky Blinders” writer Steven Knight.
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Because Bowie died before the gift was sent, the eerily prescient painting now hangs in Butler’s bedroom.
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Janelle Monáe’s new alter ego has us buzzing with questions.
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Artists across the country are mobilizing voters to help keep democracy alive.
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The live music scene is alive and well in Houston, apparently.
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Gibbs reveals a special Halloween day pop-up event in Los Angeles.
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Marc Maron appears as the one music exec who believes in a pre-Ziggy Bowie.
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It’s the second single from the band’s upcoming album, “Genesis.”