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In Memoriam
The Warmth of the Sun, The Burden of Genius: Remembering Brian Wilson
Words: A.D. Amorosi
Photo: courtesy of Capitol Records
Breaking
Annahstasia: Lessons in Patience
Words: Will Schube
Photos: Skye Turner
Olivia Rodrigo
EventsLive, In Photos
Live, in Photos: Governors Ball 2025 with Olivia Rodrigo, Clairo, Glass Animals, and More
Words: Dutch Doscher
Photos: Dutch Doscher
FLOOD FM
Join Miami Horror This Week on a New Episode of FLOOD FM’s “Hacked”
Words: FLOOD Staff
Photo: John Liwag
Playlist
Quinton Barnes’ Queer Voices in Hip-Hop Playlist
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Chelsey Boll
Debby Friday Does All Her Own Singing on New Track “Lipsync”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Kirk Lisaj
Laura Jane Grace in the Trauma Tropes Go Goth at the Pride Parade on New Single “Wearing Black”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Bella Peterson
Helado Negro and Say She She Lead Skirball’s Summer Concert Series
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Kenn Box
First Listen
Common Holly Speaks to the Fragility of Human Life on New Single “The Wood From the Sail”
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Aabid Youssef
The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson Has Died
Words: FLOOD Staff
Photo: Brian Bowen Smith
5 Questions
5 Questions with Swamp Dogg
Words: Kurt Orzeck
Photo: courtesy of Magnolia Pictures
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Track by Track
Kaonashi Walk Us Through Their Trilogy-Closing I Want to Go Home. LP
First Listen
Jamie Lidell Searches for a Sense of Certainty on New Single “How Do I Land”
In Memoriam
How Sly & the Family Stone Changed Music as We Know It
Portraits from Governors Ball 2025: Raye, The Beaches, Mannequin Pussy, and More
Rocket Return with Third Single of 2025, “Crossing Fingers”
David Byrne Announces New Album Who Is the Sky?, Shares “Everybody Laughs”
Neighborhoods
Watch Jack Van Cleaf Perform in Nashville for “Neighborhoods”
Neighborhoods
Watch Hitsujibungaku’s Moeka Shiotsuka Perform on the Beach in Santa Monica, CA for “Neighborhoods”
Neighborhoods
Watch Mobley Perform in a Pocket Park in Austin, Texas for “Neighborhoods”
Neighborhoods
Watch Famous Friend Perform at Will Rogers State Beach in LA for “Neighborhoods”
Neighborhoods
Watch Maia Friedman Perform in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn for “Neighborhoods”
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”
Features
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Breaking
Annahstasia: Lessons in Patience
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
Film + TV
Alex Ross Perry on Pavements, a Documentary Entirely Rooted Within the Vicinity of Truth
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
Ghost in the Ice Machine: Behind The Residents’ Upcoming Exotikon Performance of Eskimo
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
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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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Neighborhoods
Watch Jack Van Cleaf Perform in Nashville for “Neighborhoods”
Words: FLOOD Staff
Playlist
Sedona’s Getting Into Heaven Influences Playlist
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Skylar Watkins
First Listen
Ya I Feel Ya Trudge Through Peaks and Valleys on New Single “Fallen Empire”
Words: Kim March
First Listen
Native Sun Are Down to Clown in Video for New Single “Squash”
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: POND Creative
5 Questions
5 Questions with For Your Health
Words: Kurt Orzeck
Photo: Stone Fenk
Track by Track
Black Moth Super Rainbow Walk Us Through Their Characteristically Disorienting New LP Soft New Magic Dream
Words: Mike LeSuer
Purity Ring Returns with Two New Singles, “many lives” and “part ii”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Yuniverse
Talking Heads Share First Ever “Psycho Killer” Video, Directed By Mike Mills and Starring Saoirse Ronan
Words: Will Schube
Photo Courtesy of : Shore Fire Media
Earliest Live Recording of Sly & the Family Stone, Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967, to Be Released
Words: Will Schube
Hand Habits Announces Blue Reminder, Shares First Single “Wheel of Change”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Bronwyn Ford
Kelcey Ayer Doesn’t Want You Talking Until Everything’s Had its Coffee on “No Sleep”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Joey Wasilewski
Film + TV
Alex Ross Perry on Pavements, a Documentary Entirely Rooted Within the Vicinity of Truth
Words: Sean Fennell
Photos: courtesy of Utopia
Ethel Cain Shares “Nettles” Ahead of New LP Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Skylar Watkins
Reviews
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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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