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
  Florence + the Machine, Everybody Scream
After recent big swings across the pop plate, Florence Welch’s gothic sixth album gets cerebral and probing as the songwriter proves herself to be more in touch with her emotions.
  Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo, In the Earth Again
Destruction and decay may be the themes explored by the unlikely collaboration of a noise-rock band and a folk guitarist, but instrumentally, they make it sound beautiful, lush, and gentle.
  Soft Cell, The Art of Falling Apart [Super Deluxe Edition]
This six-disc collection expands upon the aggression, industrialism, and pernicious lyrics of the duo’s 1983 LP—a revenge, of sorts, on becoming pin-up darlings of the British new wave.
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.
