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

Aminé, 13 Months of Sunshine
The emcee’s third solo album blends house, hip-hop, and the East African sun to give listeners a deeply personal look at the journeyman rapper’s Eritrean-Ethiopian heritage.

Stereolab, Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Their first new album in fifteen years spins on an axis of subtly infectious refrains and gently askew rhythms—it’s avant-garde art-pop as something radically old yet experimentally new.

Sparks, MAD!
The Mael brothers’ 26th album purrs with sincere longings dedicated to romantic splits, though ultimately remains true to the duo’s idiosyncratic melody and tongue-in-cheek lyricism.
FLOOD Staff

The songwriter gives acoustic performances of “Had to Be There” and “Yesterday’s Another Day” from his recently released debut album We Do Not Fear the Ruins in his hometown.

The Belgian techno force played six shows in New York last week.

The recent FLOOD cover star’s tour with her new band arrived in Los Angeles this week.

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Devo, OMD, Nation of Language, ’Til Tuesday, Provoker, Mareux, and more from the annual celebration of all things new wave, goth, and post-punk in Pasadena.

Zachariah Carlson plays the first two songs from his new Blue EP on a closed-down lifeguard tower in the aftermath of the LA wildfires’ recent devastation.

Featuring cameos from Jordana, Sedona, Tim Robbins, and Reggie Watts, the photos document Becca Harvey’s LA show supporting her new album Sweetness.

The recent FLOOD cover star’s Forever Is a Feeling tour stopped in LA this week with MUNA’s Katie Gavin and jasmine.4.t.

Sponsored by FLOOD, the August 1 event in partnership with the LA Phil will blend music, video, dance, and spoken word to tell the story of LA.

Keanu Reeves never accepted the band’s invitation to play bass with them, but Tony Hawk showed up.

Live shots, portraits, and behind-the-scenes pics from the songwriter’s release show and signing for her third album, Bloodless.

The Dirty Projectors member plays “In a Dream It Could Happen” from her new solo album Goodbye Long Winter Shadow, out now via Last Gang.

Behind the scenes shots with Grouplove, Of Montreal, Wild Nothing, and more from the fest grounds at Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.

TV on the Radio, Bloc Party, Empire of the Sun, and more from the nostalgia-heavy indie fest in Pasadena.

Before taking the stage this weekend in Pasadena in support of their new LP Mausoleum, the band will join us all week with a radio takeover.

FLOOD presented the band’s return to Los Angeles along with opener Sophie Hunter.

The English five-piece are in the midst of a North American tour supporting their third album, Cowards.

The New Mexico–based songwriter gives an acoustic performance of “Had To” from her newly released fifth album Want.

Michelle Zauner’s three-night run in Chicago featured opener Ginger Root.

On the heels of their new album Mortal Primetime, the NYC-based trio’s radio takeover features Sonic Youth, Hole, Nick Drake, and more.

Mt. Joy
Backstage shots with The Backseat Lovers, The War and Treaty, Medium Build, Goldie Boutilier, and others from the annual festival in North Charleston