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
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The Los Angeles Issue
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HAIM, I Quit
The sister trio’s fourth full-length is a summer breakup concept record that’s intimate, powerful, and too scattered within its catharsis.
Little Simz, Lotus
The product of a fractured personal and professional relationship, the UK rapper’s sixth album feels like an unexpected new growth blooming on the same familiar plant.
Keep, Almost Static
Toiling away at creating a style all their own for over a decade, the Richmond group’s latest LP exudes a sense of freedom in their doomsday shoegaze sound.
Sean Fennell
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In Conversation
In Conversation: Tune-Yards Continue to Expand Their Perspective on “sketchy.”
Merrill Garbus on the uncomfortable conversations and creative choices that characterize the band’s fifth album.
March 23, 2021
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Cloud Nothings, “The Shadow I Remember”
The band’s 7th LP is a wily repurposing of former selves while, at the same, whittling away what no longer fits.
March 03, 2021
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Arlo Parks, “Collapsed in Sunbeams”
The London songwriter is able to achieve a collision of cool and gut-wrenching that is all her own.
January 29, 2021
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Lande Hekt, “Going to Hell”
The Muncie Girls songwriter finds much more fertile ground in the internal on her solo debut.
January 21, 2021
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Shamir, “Shamir”
This self-titled LP is a record of hits, misses, and left-field bangers—but it’s Shamir’s and Shamir’s only.
October 07, 2020
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Bully, “SUGAREGG”
Alicia Bognanno’s third LP benefits from a newfound willingness to let go.
September 09, 2020
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Fontaines D.C., “A Hero’s Death”
The band pick at every scab they’ve developed during their arduous last twelve months.
August 10, 2020
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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, “Reunions”
Isbell’s seventh album works best when it exists in the vagaries, where the lines of fact and fiction mix.
May 28, 2020
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Car Seat Headrest, “Making a Door Less Open”
“MaDLO” is full of holes, but wholly unique.
May 08, 2020
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Hamilton Leithauser, “The Loves of Your Life”
“Loves” sees a veteran artist sauntering along his creative borders with glee.
April 13, 2020
