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

Medicine Singers, Medicine Singers
The chimerical record’s experimental powwow, psychic jazz, and gritty no-wave punk ranges from meditative to terrifying.

MUNA, MUNA
The trio’s self-titled third album offers a type of pleasure that’s hard to find much of these days: complex but uncomplicated, emotionally intelligent, and aimed at transcendence.

Damien Jurado, Reggae Film Star
The songwriter’s 18th LP is a haunted concept album that brings to life the tired hearts, souls, and minds of characters based in a distant, perhaps parallel, past.
Sean Neumann

Howerton explains how “Sunny” is “the Phish of shows” before its record-tying fourteenth season’s finale.

THE KOMINSKY METHOD
The show’s second season is now streaming on Netflix.

For the first time in eighteen years, TNT has a serious contender in the ring.

Stu Mackenzie’s band is as prolific as they are curious about their limits.

GLOW
Wrestlers’ bodies take a beating faster than most, and the women of this Netflix series are no different.

How Chicago musicians Jason Balla and Emily Kempf talked through their breakup in song and wrote “Water,” a modern love record.