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

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.

Lorde, Virgin
The pop star retains the tainted-love throb of electro rhythm on a fourth LP that’s high on affection, low on gloss, and geared toward transcendence and sneaky sexuality.

Frankie Cosmos, Different Talking
Greta Kline’s sixth album finds her clicking with her new band, lending these songs a DIY quality reminiscent of her early demos despite digging into themes exclusive to adulthood.
FLOOD Staff

Peggy Gou
From Peggy Gou and OPN to Yard Act and Arlo Parks, here are the songs we couldn’t stop spinning over the past 12 months.

From bold and cathartic statements of newfound independence to unapologetic anthems for a one-weekend stand, here are the 10 most inventive tracks we heard in 2023.

The special programming of eclectic holiday hits spanning indie, punk, hip-hop, and beyond kicks off this Sunday, December 17, and runs through the rest of the year only on FLOOD FM.

Graphic: Jerome Curchod Photos: Zachary Gray, Jack Grange, Shervin Lainez, Steve Gullick, Gunner Stahl, Toby Leveson
From rap to pop to R&B to punk, this year was defined by a lack of homogeneity.

The NYC-based songwriter gives an evening performance of “Tree” from his newly released sophomore LP Dog.

Michael Robert Williams Photography. www.michaelwilliams.co.uk
In honor of the San Francisco live music institution, Aaron Axelsen will be spinning two consecutive hours of Britpop hits released between 1995 and 2008 three times daily.

The songwriter strums through “Tonic” from his recent LP No Fixed Point in Space, out now via Bella Union.

The Of Monsters and Men offshoot performs “Every Kind of L” and “EndUp” with a 16-piece string orchestra for our special series shot around the city’s annual Øya Festival.

The Exile in Guyville 30th anniversary tour landed at the historic Nashville venue this week.

Despite canceling the remainder of the tour, Ms. Hill and the Fugees brought the Miseducation 25th Anniversary show to the City of Brotherly Love this week.

The OKC-based indie rockers play through “Old Town” from their latest LP Cuatro, out now via Thirty Tigers.

With their latest LP Formentera II out now, Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw spin favorites from their indie-rock contemporaries.

The British avant-prog trio brought their “Eras Tour” to Los Angeles last week.

After releasing their debut album Iridescence last Friday, Brittany Campbell and Candace Quarrels play through “Find Me” and “Boundaries” in Highland Park.

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.