The Beach Boys co-founder was his own world-builder—a universalist whose visions will never be attempted, let alone replicated.
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The Warmth of the Sun, The Burden of Genius: Remembering Brian Wilson
Words: A.D. Amorosi
Photo: courtesy of Capitol Records

Words: Will Schube
Photos: Skye Turner

Olivia Rodrigo
Words: Dutch Doscher
Photos: Dutch Doscher

Words: FLOOD Staff
Photo: John Liwag

Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Chelsey Boll

Words: Will Schube
Photo: Kirk Lisaj

Words: Will Schube
Photo: Bella Peterson

Words: Will Schube
Photo: Kenn Box

Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Aabid Youssef

Words: FLOOD Staff
Photo: Brian Bowen Smith

Words: Kurt Orzeck
Photo: courtesy of Magnolia Pictures







Watch Jack Van Cleaf Perform in Nashville for “Neighborhoods”

Watch Hitsujibungaku’s Moeka Shiotsuka Perform on the Beach in Santa Monica, CA for “Neighborhoods”

Watch Mobley Perform in a Pocket Park in Austin, Texas for “Neighborhoods”

Watch Famous Friend Perform at Will Rogers State Beach in LA for “Neighborhoods”

Watch Maia Friedman Perform in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn for “Neighborhoods”

Watch Esther Rose Perform on a Beach in Ventura, California for “Neighborhoods”

Watch Pet Symmetry Play “Big Wish” in Evan Weiss’ Chicago Basement for “FLOOD Sessions”

The LA-based songwriter talks getting her debut jazz-folk-soul opus Tether “really right” after numerous false starts.
Words: Will Schube
Photos: Skye Turner

The filmmaker discusses his multiple approaches to profiling Stephen Malkmus, the “inscrutable” figure at the center of his new project.
Words: Sean Fennell
Photos: courtesy of Utopia

The long-running avant-garde collective will bring their most epic conceptual work to life nearly 50 years after its release at the LA music and arts festival this weekend.
Words: A.D. Amorosi
Photos: Courtesy of The Residents




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
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.

Words: FLOOD Staff

Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Skylar Watkins

Words: Kim March

Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: POND Creative

Words: Kurt Orzeck
Photo: Stone Fenk

Words: Mike LeSuer

Words: Will Schube
Photo: Yuniverse

Words: Will Schube
Photo Courtesy of : Shore Fire Media

Words: Will Schube

Words: Will Schube
Photo: Bronwyn Ford

Words: Will Schube
Photo: Joey Wasilewski

Words: Sean Fennell
Photos: courtesy of Utopia

Words: Will Schube
Photo: Skylar Watkins

The Bug Club, Very Human Features
Another collection of relentlessly charming and eccentric garage rock, this fifth album doubles down on the Welsh band’s signature stylized-raw production and unusual lyrics.

Activity, A Thousand Years in Another Way
The third LP from the pigeonhole-proof Brooklyn collective proves just how far they can stretch the boundaries of indie rock with this radically diverse set of songs.

Ben Kweller, Cover the Mirrors
Dedicated to his late son, the former grunge-pop wunderkind crafts something both touching and infectious as it moves through the stages of grief like landmarks on an epic summer tour.


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