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

Walker’s latest is a powerful record of prog and jamming and lyrics that are just clever enough to not be silly.

The ensemble’s 7th album is resistance music built off the back of the most difficult year in the modern era.

Florence Shaw’s biting delivery steals the show and elevates the album to great heights.

The Fresh & Onlys vocalist’s latest illustrates why he’s a trusted source for catchy hooks and jangly tunes.

The co-director of the new documentary on the outlaw country icon discusses her film and Clark’s influence on her life.

This deluxe edition offers a nice slew of remixes and demos, but its best function is a reminder of how good TPC was the first time around.

The album functions as a sample pack for aspiring producers, introducing a number of styles that Muggs handles with ease.

Jeremy Earl and Glenn Donaldson construct an effortless cascade of pastoral psych-folk on their debut.

The pair’s second release of 2021 smoothly builds on the chemistry they established on that first tape.

The band talks addiction, recovery, and their hiatus—and how these elements led to their heaviest album to date.

The musician talks grief, her memoir, releasing songs without the pressure of a record press cycle, and her struggle with writing happy tunes.

Yoni Wolf details the impulse and happenstance that informed the band’s fractured new album.

Following the band’s Shaky Knees set, Conor Murphy wrestles with musical and existential questions.

There are fewer layers, less fireworks; every part coalesces quietly.

White Denim
When they’re not on the road, James Petralli and Steve Terebecki are taking creative control with their own studio.

On “Guns,” the Detroit rapper continues to defy assigned labels.

The first-time filmmaker on becoming a documentarian-of-all-trades—and trying not to miss anything.

Dr. Octagon / photo by Carlo Cavaluzzi
Tired of waiting for everyone else to join them, Kool Keith, Dan the Automator, and DJ QBert have touched back down on Earth.

With A24’s latest triumph now in theaters, Stetson walks us through his collaboration with director Ari Aster and the film scores that have shaped his work.

La Luz are turning their garage rock early days into something shimmering and alluring, yet laced with venom and sharp edges.