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

Sly & the Family Stone, The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967
This unearthed 1967 live gig from Redwood City, California features raw, soulful R&B covers recorded with a roomful of memorable voices that audiences would soon grow to love.

Alex G, Headlights
Alex Giannascoli’s major-label debut earnestly embraces dated musical tropes only to turn them on their heads as they soundtrack explosions of messy emotional honesty.

Billie Marten, Dog Eared
The British indie-folk songwriter’s fifth album is aided by a full-band even in its most personal moments, as Marten reflects on indelible scenes from childhood as seen through adult eyes.
Zachary Weg

The Little Dragon vocalist talks striking out on her own with For You, an authentic and relatable journey through romance, motherhood, and resilience.

Damon McMahon talks staying authentic while protesting the old world order with Death Jokes, the songwriter’s first new album in six years.

Pianist and beatmaker Kiefer Shackelford shares how he finds beauty in music and reflects it in his own compositions.

Drummer Jack Bevan discusses the pure joy and spontaneous freedom that manifests on the group’s seventh album.

Sascha Ring discusses the journey leading up to the Berlin electronic trio’s first record in over half a decade.

The LA-based popsmith discusses how TikTok and his Haitian roots helped him create his own space amidst the teeming musical landscape.

The London-based songwriter discusses making the personal feel universal on his latest record, Don’t Forget to Look Up.