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

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.

Chat Pile, This Dungeon Earth/Remove Your Skin Please [Reissue]
This single-vinyl compendium welds together the two EP releases that preceded the OKC sludge-rockers’ formal introduction to the unwitting masses.
FLOOD Staff

Nisa Lumaj performs her latest single outside of Tightrope Studios in Greenpoint.

The German house producer is taking over the airwaves ahead of his performance at the San Francisco music festival later this month.

With KILLJOY out today, the UK group shows us around their hometown before hitting the road again in support of their new album.

The indie-pop songwriter plays “Demo of a One Night Stand” and “Who I Am” for our special series shot around the city’s annual Øya Festival.

Alex Turner and co. are in the midst of their first US tour in over five years.

The songwriter and actor’s sophomore record End of Ways arrived last week via Kill Rock Stars.

The cosmic folk group perform the first of many sets featured in our special series shot around the annual Øya Festival, which took place in early August.

Filmed on her agave farm, the track appears on her debut album Despechada—out now via LaunchLeft.

The indietronica icons are taking over the airwaves ahead of their performance at the San Francisco music festival next month.

Modern English
The one-day-only “Flashback Sunday” episode lands on the cusp of the English post-punks’ North American tour.

Rina Sawayama
Röyksopp, Thundercat, Purple Disco Machine, SBTRKT, Jai Paul, and more will be taking over the Bay Area for Portola Week 2023.

The indie icons—along with Cat Power—closed out the Summer Stage series at the historic Asbury Park, NJ venue.

Both tracks appeared on the songwriter’s LP Forgiving Season released earlier this summer.

Fatboy Slim
Every Saturday leading up to the event on the weekend of September 30, we’ll be exclusively playing tracks by artists performing at the San Francisco festival.

Coco & Breezy, Soccer Mommy, Poolside, Grace Ives, Yaya Bey, No Vacation, and more from the fest within the fest.

Lorde at Flow Festival in Helsinki, Finland. August 12, 2023. Photo by Joshua Mellin
Shots of Blur, Kelela, Tove Lo, Suede, Wizkid, and more from Helsinki, Finland.

The Kentucky-based songwriter performs two tracks from his Dan Auerbach–produced debut album Yellow Peril, out now via Easy Eye Sound.

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.