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
Prince & The Revolution, Around the World in a Day [40th Anniversary Edition]
Besides its crystal-clear sound, the draw for this expanded singles collection is its curios such as the 22-minute “America” and Prince’s serpentine contribution to the We Are the World album.
La Luz, Extra! Extra!
Reworking tracks from 2024’s News of the Universe LP, Shana Cleveland emphasizes themes of change, non-determinism, and acceptance on an EP that aptly feels a little lonely.
The Durutti Column, The Return of The Durutti Column [45th Anniversary Edition]
This reissue of the art-rockers’ 1980 debut may not come with the sandpaper sleeve it had upon its initial release, yet that doesn’t make its haunting, all-instrumental music any less abrasive.
Taylor Ruckle
The London-based indie rockers’ latest EP is an anti-formalist return to form.
The latest single from “Galactic Africa” pushes back on neo-colonialism in energetic Afrobeat fashion.
Kennedy Freeman shares the first of two full-band singles already planned for 2022.
The track arrives ahead of the “Jagged Little Pill” cast member’s debut album, “My Bed.”
The Québec-based songwriter celebrates the richness of her culture and the healing she’s achieved through transmitting it on her latest release.
The paradoxically upbeat single arrives ahead of their forthcoming self-titled EP.
The Palberta member’s solo debut channels the anguish and exhilarating possibility of a post-breakup period.
Taylor Vick’s comfort zone is the lilting, mid-tempo stuff her new album is founded on, opening up an expansive space around her nylon-string compositions.
Chamber-pop ornamentation and live-band grit weave around spiritual lyricism on the Cincinnati band’s third album.
