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

Pulp, More
The Sheffield art rock ensemble’s first album in nearly 24 years still maintains their Kinks-y kitchen sink dramatics in opposition to Oasis’ Beatles-like demeanor and Blur’s operatic Who-ness.

Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell [10th Anniversary Edition]
Padded out with a personal essay, family photos, and outtakes, this re-release of Stevens’ album-length eulogy permits yet another return to the 1980s Oregon of the artist’s memory.

Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.
FLOOD Staff

Megan thee Stallion at Outside Lands in San Francisco, CA. August 13, 2023. Photo by Mallory Turner
Shots of The 1975, Alvvays, Soccer Mommy, Ethel Cain, Gabriels, beabadoobee, Maggie Rogers, and more from Golden Gate Park.

The LA-based musician announced his new album Blame It All on Love earlier this month with a yacht-rock-indebted single.

Josh Homme and co.’s “The End Is Nero” tour touched down in Philly earlier this week.

Behind-the-scenes shots from the inaugural two-day festival at Waterfront Park in San Diego.

Kendrick Lamar
Pics of Alex G, Lil Yachty, SOFI TUKKER, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rina Sawayama, and more from Grant Park.

The track was featured on Jordan Benjamin’s I Love You, I’m Trying LP, out now via Fueled by Ramen.

The Flaming Lips at The Fillmore in Philadelphia, PA. August 5, 2023. Photo by David Iskra
Wayne Coyne and co. are on tour celebrating 20 years of their classic Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots album.

The London-based house musician’s recent Not As I EP gets a physical release this Friday via Domino.

Shots of Remi Wolf, Indigo De Souza, Jason Isbell, Bartees Strange, and more from the iconic annual fest on the shores of Fort Adams in Newport, Rhode Island.

The neo-psych quartet perform two tracks from their forthcoming LP Eternal Embers on Cypress Mountain in British Columbia, Canada.

Following the release of the band’s sixth LP I Want It All Right Now, Christian Zucconi and Hannah Hooper spin everything from Wire and Talking Heads to alt-J and Broncho.

Shots of Alvvays, Vagabon, JPEGMAFIA, Big Thief, and more from the annual fest in Chicago’s Union Park.

The indie-pop duo return to Mina Walker’s hometown to perform two tracks outside the arts organization Music Box Village ahead of their upcoming European/UK tour.

Featuring 272 pages of portraits, live photos, and behind-the-scenes shots from the 2000s and beyond, the hardcover book arrives November 7 via Weldon Owen.

Leaning into the genres explored on her latest record Love as Projection, Rose spins an hour of coldwave and post-punk deep cuts.

Sisters Natalie, Allison, and Meegan Closner perform the track from their new album The Sun in a parking lot during a stop on their recent North American tour.

The iconic indie rock outfit is releasing their Sumday-era B-sides and rarities collection Sumday: Excess Baggage digitally next month.

Graphic by Jerome Curchod. Photos by Daniel Cavazos, Nina Andersson, Harrison Whitford, Jonathan Mannion, Sophia Matinazad
In honor of our favorite releases of the year thus far, catch 24 straight hours of our picks on July 15, 22, and 29.

The Georgian country-rockers’ sophomore album You Know Who is out now via Normaltown/New West Records.

The songwriter performs two tracks from his debut LP Singing Into Darkness live from the Navajo Nation mountain range spanning New Mexico and Arizona.