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

Ezra Furman, Goodbye Small Head
A glitchy folk-punk opera like a pastoral take on Lou Reed’s Berlin, the songwriter’s quivering-yet-empowered latest sees her knocked down—but never knocked out.

Youth Code, Yours, with Malice
The EBM duo continues to test new waters with their debut EP for metalcore label Sumerian, inviting experimentation on each of these five bone-rattling recordings.

Kali Uchis, Sincerely,
Moving from the synth-dembow-pop of last year’s Orquídeas to dreamy neo-soul, her fifth album sees Uchis adapt the tripling axis of joy, pain, and existential dilemma into cloudy song.
FLOOD Staff

In honor of his upcoming album Shirt, Aaron Maine takes the aux cord this week to queue up Fugazi, Arthur Russell, Charli XCX, and more.

The five-piece’s new album, The Warping, is out now via Lucky Number.

The house musician takes us behind the scenes of her weekend in Rothbury, Michigan for last weekend’s Electric Forest festival.

Graphic: Jerome Curchod Photos: Petros Studio, Millicent Hailes, Molly Matalon, Skylar Watkins, Joshua Mellin, Eva Vermandel
25 records that could only be made by human intelligence.

The Nordic music festival and conference will be kicking off the program with New York City’s New Colossus Festival in March 2025.

The NYC indie rockers covertly played their new single “Sunset Vision” on a tour bus running along the West Side Highway.

Ethel Cain at Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, CA / photo by Skylar Watkins
The songwriter brought “The Childish Behavior Tour” to the amphitheatre in the hills of Griffith Park on Saturday night.

On the heels of new album VISITOR released last week, Pete Lawrie Winfield tells stories and spins tunes from DJ Shadow, Run the Jewels, Aphex Twin, Sly and the Family Stone, and more.

The NYC dance-punk group takes us behind the scenes of their trip to Spain, where they recently played their first-ever Primavera set.

Plus backstage shots of Dashboard Confessional, Milky Chance, Neil Frances, Taking Back Sunday, Trousdale, and others from the annual festival in Manchester, Tennessee.

Megan Thee Stallion
Plus Maggie Rogers, Reneé Rapp, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Carly Rae Jepsen, Cage the Elephant, and more from The Farm in Manchester, Tennessee.

The LA-based songwriter sings “Willing & Able” from his recently released debut project Something Burning at the historic nonprofit African-American women’s organization.

Bill Nace, Gordon’s collaborator in Body/Head, opened the evening.

Matthew Koma spins tracks by Madi Diaz, Lauren Mayberry, and more ahead of his band’s upcoming tour in support of their debut album Sha La La.

Chapell Roan
Goth Babe, 21 Savage, Carly Rae Jepsen, Post Malone, Blondshell, Reneé Rapp, Rauw Alejandro, and more from Flushing Meadows Corona Park in NYC.

In the middle of her tour of the Midwest, Siri Undlin plays “Quickest Way” from her latest LP Right On.

Sylvan Esso
Plus pics of Dehd, Truth Club, Reyna Tropical, and Hippo Campus from the two-day festival at Durham Bulls Athletic Park in North Carolina, presented by Sylvan Esso and Psychic Hotline.

Lil Wayne, Nas, André 3000, Jill Scott, BLK ODYSSY, and more from The Roots’ annual festival at The Mann at Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.

Pics of the fans and festival grounds from the annual event at Parc del Fòrum in Barcelona.

The Toronto jangle-pop duo shares photo highlights of memorable gigs, sandwiches, and solar eclipses, from their spring tour with Ratboys.