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

Bruce Springsteen, Tracks II: The Lost Albums
This new box breaks down seven well-framed sets of sessions spanning 1983 to 2018, essentially designed as full-album capsules of mood previously deemed unfit for canonization.

Gelli Haha, Switcheroo
The songwriter’s debut is carefree, sleazy, fundamentally arresting dance music—a multi-sensory circus serving to wallpaper the halls of dance-pop history with neon, acid-tinged nonsense.

Wavves, Spun
The LA band’s eighth LP eschews distortion in favor of a cleaner pop-punk sound that both spotlights Nathan Williams’ songwriting chops and dulls the project’s compelling eccentricities.
FLOOD Staff

FLOOD will be sponsoring the label showcase to help kick off Lolla weekend on August 1 at Virgin Hotels Chicago.

Scott Huerta gives a solo acoustic performance of the song “Fast Held Hand” from the group’s recently released third album, Benzene, in his hometown’s Richmond District.

The Scottish songwriter takes us behind the scenes of her experience opening for Stevie Nicks at BST Hyde Park in London.

The LA-based psych-Americana group plays “Ball and Key” and the title track from their forthcoming sophomore record Fool’s Parade, landing this Friday via New West.

The Brooklyn art-punks recap their recent tour opening for of Montreal in words and photos.

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.