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

Deftones, private music
Each member’s strengths are on high alert, making the alt-metal band’s thrashing and highly imaginative 10th album a thing of brutal beauty.

Mac DeMarco, Guitar
The songwriter’s intimately recorded latest LP is a simple affair where humor and bluntness roam freely and his typical experimentation hardly obscures the beauty of his songwriting craft.

Quadeca, Vanisher, Horizon Scraper
The YouTuber-turned-rapper’s production style reaches a new zenith, with the LP’s intensity perfectly complementing Benjamin Lasky’s verses exploring obsession, alienation, and self-destruction.
FLOOD Staff

Tears for Fears, Soft Cell, The Human League, The B-52’s, and more from the inaugural new wave and goth festival in Huntington Beach, CA.

Emily Whitehurst plays “Blood Perfume” and “Lady Neptune” from her new LP deathdreams.

With the SoCal surf-pop group in the midst of celebrating a decade of existence, Misha Lindes walks us through his recipe for his world-famous chili.

The singer/rapper’s latest record Bury the Lede is out now via Doomtree.

Tyler, The Creator
Turnstile, Ice Spice, Lil Yachty, Clipse, PinkPantheress, Earl Sweatshirt, and much more from Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles.

The Easy Eye Sound signee’s fourth album Black Bayou arrived last month.

The duo play “Pleasure” and “Fever Dream” from the new expanded edition of their Light Split Sparkle EP outside of band member Philippe Andre’s studio.

The first installment of Alterego, the Colombian-Mexican artist’s adventurous two-part project, is out now.

Both tracks appeared on her EP Sunshine Kid, released back in September.

Live pics and portraits with Say She She, Amyl & the Sniffers, Ganser, SASAMI, and more from the annual Austin fest leading up to Halloween.

The collaborators’ debut solo album Los Angeles arrives this Friday.

Before the experimental songwriter’s latest record Zig drops this Friday, she takes us step-by-step through the process of baking the fruity treats.

The Throwing Muses vocalist performs the track from her new solo LP Clear Pond outside of Stable Sound Studio where the record was recorded.

With his Summer Moon project’s new Casino Days EP out now, Fraiture shares a playlist focusing on iconic music cues in film.

Recap of Sound Exchange’s 20th Anniversary. Photographed in West Hollywood @ the Sun Rose hotel on 10.17.23.
The exclusive event in LA celebrated SoundExchange’s 20th anniversary.

Joshua Epstein of JR JR performs “Hit Man” and “Vast Sea” in his backyard with backing vocals from his dog Potato.

Dave Grohl joined the band at the Austin venue on the Pixies classic “Gigantic.”

The record producer and mixer behind iconic albums by Beck, Depeche Mode, and more shares a playlist of what he’s been spinning lately.

Presented by FLOOD, the event on November 10 will also feature an opening set from Rose Avenue.

With his new single “Nature Mother” out now, Pete Lawrie Winfield takes us through the early mornings and picturesque sunsets of his ideal day in his home of nearly a decade.