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Digital Cover Love Bites: Royel Otis Embrace the Bruise on hickey

Photos: Shervin Lainez

Words: Mike Wass

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Zak Starkey Is Still Processing His Busy Month

The drummer and Mantra of the Cosmos co-founder riffs about recent collaborators Noel Gallagher, Sean Lennon, and James McCartney, his standing with The Who, and more.

Words: A.D. Amorosi

Photo: Jill Furmanovsky
In Conversation
Megan James and Corin Roddick on Rebooting Purity Ring for Their Self-Titled Album

Words: Margaret Farrell

Photos: yuniVERSE

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Love Bites: Royel Otis Embrace the Bruise on hickey

Words: Mike Wass

Photos: Shervin Lainez

EventsLive, In Photos
Live, in Photos: Fontaines D.C. at Finsbury Park in London

Words: FLOOD Staff

Photos: Kimberley Ross

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Aunt Katrina Walk Us Through Their Fuzz-Drenched Debut Album This Heat Is Slowly Killing Me

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photo: Julia Hernandez

Lil Yachty Returns with Decidedly Non-Diss Track “Won’t Diss You”

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photo: Kenneth Dapaah

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grandson Rails Against America’s Military-Industrial Complex on New Single “Self Immolation”

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photo: Philip Shum

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Order the US Dept. of Homeland Security to Cease and Desist

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photo: David Iskra

Die Spitz Announce Something to Consume LP, Drop “Throw Yourself to the Sword”

Words: Will Schube

Photo: Anatheme

5 QuestionsFirst Listen
Hear an Early Stream of Pygmy Lush’s Long-Lost Fourth Album Totem

Words: Kurt Orzeck

Photo: Elulu Photo

Earl Sweatshirt, Sparks, and My Morning Jacket to Headline Hopscotch 2025

Words: Will Schube

Photo: Wilson Lee

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5 Non-Musical Influences on 81355’s First Full-Band Effort Bad Dogs
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On Stage (and at the Tattoo Parlor) with Youth Lagoon
Jay Som Shares “Float” (with Jimmy Eat World’s Jim Adkins) and “A Million Reasons Why” From New LP
Rocket Announce Debut LP R Is for Rocket, Drop New Single “Wide Awake”
Big Thief Share Another Double Infinity Single, “All Night All Day”
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Spaceface Balance Social Commentary with Sounding Cool on New Track “Everything Is Money”
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Neighborhoods

Watch Windser Perform in Mount Washington, Los Angeles for “Neighborhoods”

Watch Resavoir, Matt Gold, and Mei Semones Perform “Diversey Beach” on Lake Michigan

Neighborhoods

Watch Your Grandparents Perform at Kenter Trailhead in LA for “Neighborhoods”

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Watch Born Ruffians Perform on a Rooftop in Hamilton, Ontario for “Neighborhoods”

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Watch Yoshika Colwell Perform at Austin’s Barton Springs for “Neighborhoods”

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Watch Jack Van Cleaf Perform in Nashville for “Neighborhoods”

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

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Zak Starkey Is Still Processing His Busy Month

The drummer and Mantra of the Cosmos co-founder riffs about recent collaborators Noel Gallagher, Sean Lennon, and James McCartney, his standing with The Who, and more.

Words: A.D. Amorosi

Photo: Jill Furmanovsky
In Conversation
Megan James and Corin Roddick on Rebooting Purity Ring for Their Self-Titled Album

The Canadian electronic duo discusses the unique RPG universe they built for their newly announced fourth record, which arrives September 26.

Words: Margaret Farrell

Photos: yuniVERSE

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Love Bites: Royel Otis Embrace the Bruise on hickey

In our latest digital cover story, the Australian indie-pop duo reflects on the inevitable bruises left by the rollercoaster of burgeoning fame, as outlined in their forthcoming sophomore album.

Words: Mike Wass

Photos: Shervin Lainez

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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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Porcelain Keep the Fire Burning with New Single “Torch”

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photo: Pooneh Ghana

Indigo De Souza Is Protecting Her Energy on New Single “Be Like the Water”

Words: Will Schube

Photo: Lea Garn

Syd Returns with Smooth New Single “Die for This”

Words: Will Schube

Photo: Wilson Lee

Neighborhoods
Watch Windser Perform in Mount Washington, Los Angeles for “Neighborhoods”

Words: FLOOD Staff

Film + TVFilm Review
This Is Spinal Tap 41st Anniversary: A Preserved Moose on Stage

Words: Steve Horton

The Rapture Announce First Tour in 15 Years

Words: Will Schube

Photo: Gena Tuso

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Weakened Friends Share an Anthem for Anyone Feeling Burned Out by Their Jobs with “Tough Luck (Bleed Me Out)”

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photo: Justin Labadie

EventsLive, In Photos
Live, in Photos: Roskilde Festival 2025 with Charli XCX, Nine Inch Nails, FKA twigs, and More

Words: Randy Bookasta

Photo: Malthe Ivarsso

First Listen
Mal Blum Turns Things Inward on New Single “The Villain”

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photo: Nate Sturley

FLOOD FM
Join Nation of Language This Week on a New Episode of FLOOD FM’s “Hacked”

Words: FLOOD Staff

Photo: Kimberley Ross

John Glacier Follows Up Like a Ribbon with New Single “Fly With Me”

Words: Will Schube

Photo: Ayanna Allen

EssayFilm + TV
Jaws at 50: A Distinctly American Thriller

Words: Greg Cwik

Photo: courtesy of Universal

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Die in Love: Finally Getting to (Kind of) Know Greet Death

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photos: Kat Nijmeddin

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Goon, Dream 3

Both brighter-eyed and harder-hearted, the LA quartet return with a third LP of full-bodied psych-shoegaze which settles deeply into Kenny Becker’s cataclysmic transitional life period.

Ólafur Arnalds & Talos, A Dawning

This seamless collaboration fuses the Icelandic composer’s gentle, piano-based soundscapes with the late Irish artist’s poignant electronica and singular voice without ever feeling saccharine.

Gina Birch, Trouble

This second solo LP moves further into the Raincoats co-founder’s melodic mix of dub-rock, neo-jazz, skeletal R&B, and space-pop as she continues to eschew creature comforts.
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