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The Best Music Books of 2024
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The Best TV of 2024
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Graphic: Jerome Curchod
Chappell Roan
Essay
Chappell Roan: The Anti-Popstar of 2024
Words: Bee Delores
Photo: Wilson Lee
Additional photos: Alden Bonecutter, Skylar Watkins, Merissa Blitz, Christian Sarkine, and Daniel Cavazos
Staff Picks
The Best Films of 2024
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Graphic: Jerome Curchod
Photos: Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures, Amazon/MGM Studios, A24, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures
Staff Picks
The Best Songs of 2024
Words: FLOOD Staff
Graphic: Jerome Curchod
Photos: Wilson Lee, Merissa Blitz, Theo Cottle, Harley Weir
EventsLive, In Photos
Live, in Photos: Katie Gavin at Thalia Hall
Words: FLOOD Staff
Photos: Christian Sarkine
Rolling Loud Miami 2024, Valerie Magan
EventsLive, In Photos
Live, in Photos: Rolling Loud Miami 2024 with Travis Scott, Playboi Carti, Future, and More
Words: Valerie Magan
Photos: Valerie Magan
Billie Eilish Is Providing Food and Support to Cities She Played on Her “Hit Me Hard and Soft” Tour
Words: Kim March
Photo: Timofey Abel
The 38th Tibet House Benefit to Feature Performances From Laurie Anderson, Gogol Bordello, and Arooj Aftab
Words: Will Schube
Photo: David Iskra
FLOOD FM
Tune in for FLOOD FM’s Third Annual Cool Yule Xmas Radio Special
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Kendrick Lamar’s Section.80 Era Cut “Money Without Me” Is (Perhaps Illicitly) Available to Stream
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Wilson Lee
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First Listen
Haunted Horses Seek a Way Forward on Liminal New Single “Temple of Bone”
Billie Eilish Brings Holiday Pop-Up to Los Angeles
IDLES Recruit Danny Brown for “POP POP POP” Remix
Aphex Twin Is Back with Another New Surprise Project, Music From the Merch Desk (2016 – 2023)
Neighborhoods
Watch SUSTO’s Johnny Delaware Perform in Athens, Georgia for “Neighborhoods”
First Listen
Blood Lemon Tap Into Romance Novels and Found Footage for New “High Tide” Video
Neighborhoods
Watch SUSTO’s Johnny Delaware Perform in Athens, Georgia for “Neighborhoods”
Neighborhoods
Watch Lilly Hiatt Perform in Nashville, Tennessee for “Neighborhoods”
Neighborhoods
Watch Ark Patrol Perform Along the Mamalahoa Highway in Hawaii for “Neighborhoods”
Neighborhoods
Watch Dean & Britta Cover David Berman in LA’s Highland Park for “Neighborhoods”
Neighborhoods
Watch The Deslondes Perform in Athens, Georgia for “Neighborhoods”
Neighborhoods
Watch Nitefire Play “I’m in Love with Myself” in Los Angeles for “Neighborhoods”
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Watch Breymer Perform in Los Angeles for “Neighborhoods”
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In Conversation
Lauren Mayberry on the Theatricality, Darkness, and Feminism at the Core of Vicious Creature
The CHVRCHES vocalist shares how she aimed for a more biting, character-driven narrative to her newly released solo debut.
Words: Will Schube
Photos: Charlotte Patmore
Film + TVIn Conversation
Kyle Mooney on Y2K and the Power of Hysteria
The SNL alum discusses his directorial debut, a comedic alternate history of all our worst Y2K-incited fears coming to fruition.
Words: Adam Davidson
Photos: courtesy of A24
photo by urika’s bedroom
Breaking
urika’s bedroom Is Letting the Music Do the Talking
The anonymous songwriter shares how they aim to engage the listener’s imagination with their debut solo record, Big Smile, Black Mire.
Words: Will Schube
Photos: urika’s bedroom
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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
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The Los Angeles Issue
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.
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EventsLive, In Photos
Live, in Photos: Audacy’s KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas 2024 at Kia Forum
Words: FLOOD Staff
Photos: Skylar Watkins
In Conversation
Lauren Mayberry on the Theatricality, Darkness, and Feminism at the Core of Vicious Creature
Words: Will Schube
Photos: Charlotte Patmore
FLOOD FM
Catch the FLOOD Staff on FLOOD FM All Week Counting Down Our Favorite Tracks of 2024
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Backstage Camera Roll
On the Road with GIFT
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Röyksopp Release New Ambient LP Nebulous Nights
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Stian Andersen
Film + TVIn Conversation
Kyle Mooney on Y2K and the Power of Hysteria
Words: Adam Davidson
Photos: courtesy of A24
First Look
Queen Kwong Subverts the Male Gaze in New Video for Cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “State Trooper”
Words: Mischa Pearlman
Photo: Darian Zahedi
Art & Culture
John C. Reilly Is Bringing Mister Romantic to Hollywood Forever Cemetery for Valentine’s Day
Words: Will Schube
Essay
War Still Got the Power
Words: A.D. Amorosi
Pulp
Pulp Sign to Rough Trade Records
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Daniel Cavazos
Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova to Debut “Punk’s Not Dead” Show in LA
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Yulia Shur
First Listen
CAPYAC and Reggie Watts Team Up for New Songs From Celestial City EP, Share First Single
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Lily Harte
Julien Baker and TORRES Share “Sugar in the Tank” on The Tonight Show
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Ebru Yildiz
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Saint Etienne, The Night
Over 30 years after their debut, the Vaseline-lensed electro-pop trio still titillates without any consideration of boundaries as they continue their recent shift toward spectral-sounding gravitas.
Daft Punk, Discovery [Interstella 5555 Edition]
Reissued in honor of its complementary anime film’s 20th anniversary, the French house duo’s breakout LP feels like a time capsule for a brief period of pre-9/11 optimism.
The Coward Brothers, The Coward Brothers
Inspired by Christopher Guest’s recent radio play reviving Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett’s 1985 fictional band, this playful debut album proves that this inside joke still has legs.
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