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

Kali Uchis, Sincerely,
Moving from the synth-dembow-pop of last year’s Orquídeas to dreamy neo-soul, her fifth album sees Uchis adapt the tripling axis of joy, pain, and existential dilemma into cloudy song.

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Naturally [20th Anniversary Edition]
This 2005 modern classic of soul revivalism pulled itself up from the bootstraps of the group’s debut with a respect for nuance to match its need for pulsating grooviness.

PinkPantheress, Fancy That
The UK artist’s second mixtape features an EP’s brevity and an album’s worth of heft, all built upon breathless, sample-heavy instrumentals that form an unlikely sense of cohesion.
Will Schube

On her debut solo LP, H.C. McEntire remains an effusive, unrelenting force amidst a shifted landscape.

The Montreal pop duo experiments with optimistic themes on their latest musical cocktail.

photo by Nick Ebeling
The Savages guitarist walks us through the making and spirit of her score for Nick Ebeling’s new Dennis Hopper documentary.

“Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga” is the logical conclusion of Spoon’s commercial appeal and their innovativeness, an effort seamlessly weaving between earworm melodies and genuine experimentation.

Sometimes the best things are the ones that remain the same.

Detroit’s most amiable punks explores their sound and considerably extend its boundaries.

From a quiet, smooth opening, Kamasi Washington’s new EP grows to enormous heights.

Frost’s music can be grating, obstructive, evil, sinister, and ugly. Yet there’s something both charming and beautiful in how he embraces these characteristics.

Maker and Campos find a way to bring their collaborators toward their sound, not the other way around, and the results are outstanding.

Most of all, Bronson simply seems fully in control of the world he’s created on “Blue Chips 7000.”

On their first record in five years, the venerable group starts small.

This is how most of “Popular Manipulations” works: starts modest, grows bolder, ends up on a mountaintop.

photo by Masayoshi Sukita
It took eleven years, but the Japanese songwriter has returned.

Tyler’s always been an immensely talented producer and rapper, but he’s never put together an album as cohesively as he does here.

Shabazz Palaces
We speak with the Seattle legend to figure out how, exactly, he always stays one step ahead of the game.

A death-defying trip to Glacier National Park inspired the Austin band’s new record.

Ernest Greene is a new musician on “Mister Mellow,” and the results are often outstanding.

photo by Adarsha Benjamin
The well-traveled musician seeks a quiet place to reflect on his old life as a city dweller.

The British producer and sound collagist talks about opening himself to collaboration and simplifying his sound on his latest—and best—album, “Compassion.”

photo by Brad Bunyea
Ascending to heaven comes with a steep caveat.