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

Danger Mouse & Black Thought, Cheat Codes
This collaborative LP places producer Danger Mouse’s lush, tense arrangements and cushiony, snapping beats in the service of The Roots’ lyricist and microphone expert.

Beastie Boys, Check Your Head [30th Anniversary Edition]
The Beasties clean up nice on this reissue of the album that introduced their dirtball brand of insistently stewing lo-fi mixed-bag skronk.

Danny Elfman, Bigger. Messier.
This remixed odds and ends collection is longer, denser, more disorderly, and less refined than the composer’s solo effort from last year.
Tim Gagnon

Dan Wriggins talks community, everyday ephemera, and lobster fishing ahead of the Philly-based group’s debut album for Merge, Love the Stranger.

Hear an early stream of the Western Massachusetts ex-pat’s latest LP before it drops this Friday.

The Kali Uchis and John Carroll Kirby collaborator reclaims the witchcraft aesthetic with her soothing harp music.

The Bay Area (for now) five-piece offer up an early stream of their new LP, out tomorrow on Forged Artifacts.

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Mike Hadreas on his social distance-skirting vision for “Set My Heart on Fire Immediately.”

Johan Duncanson looks back on the Swedish duo’s shapeshifting breakthrough LP.

Stream “Heavenly Rhythms for the Uninitiated” before its Friday release.

George Clanton, Negative Gemini, Saint Pepsi, and more recount the origins of the vaporwave label that made it big—online and off.

Stream the LA dream pop band’s debut in full before its Friday release.

After their fourth album dissolved along with frontperson Jessica Boudreaux’s relationship, she wrote a record about reclaiming her personality.

With an HBO mini-series and a second retirement in their imminent future, the comedy troupe take us behind the scenes of their beloved act.