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

Our latest digital cover stars spin everything from Beach House to Nina Simone to Frankie Valli on their radio takeover.

Annie Clark’s All Born Screaming tour landed in her adopted hometown on Friday.

The SoCal trio performs two tracks for our latest subseries, which is dedicated to the music and arts fest on California’s Central Coast.

The Kansas City–based indie rockers play the track “How It Goes” from their recent LP Everyone’s Gone and I Know I’m the Cause while visiting the city.

Kevin Abstract
Shots of Sabrina Carpenter, Grace Jones, Slowdive, Killer Mike, Daniel Caesar, and more from Golden Gate Park.

Samara Joy at Newport Jazz Festival / photo Eleanor Petry
Live pics and portraits of Samara Joy, Brittany Howard, Elvis Costello, Kamasi Washington, Noname, and more from the historic fest in Newport, Rhode Island.

The indie-pop duo took the stage in Chicago over the weekend to perform songs from their newly released sixth album, To the Ghosts.

Go behind the scenes of the band’s European tour ahead of their FLOOD-sponsored show at the Bowl this weekend. Plus, enter to win free tickets.

The Vancouver-based group kicks off our latest subseries, which will be dedicated to the music and arts fest on California’s Central Coast.

Friko, Been Stellar, Blu DeTiger, Knox, Brigitte Calls Me Baby, Tiny Habits, and more from the fest within the fest.

Backstage shots of Destroy Boys, Militarie Gun, Tiny Habits, Pierce the Veil, Friko, and more from Grant Park in Chicago.

The NYC-based songwriter plays “Sushi in Wyoming” from his debut album Enchanté, out now via Nettwerk.

Laufey / photo by Bella Peterson
The Last Dinner Party, Reneé Rapp, Deftones, Blondshell, Tate McRae, and more highlights from Grant Park in Chicago.

Coming off a weekend in Chicago for Lollapalooza, the NYC-based rockers walk us through an ideal day in the city they call home.

Nicolette Hoang and Ian Bain play “Losing More” from their debut album The Long Way in Bain’s backyard.

Local Natives’ Nik Ewing brings two of the piano compositions from his forthcoming LP Songs for Linnéa to downtown Glendale, California.

Behind-the-scenes shots with Militarie Gun, Miya Folick, La Luz, and more from the return of the two-day fest at Waterfront Park in Portland.

The cryptic San Francisco indie-pop trio spins everything from Souls of Mischief to Jessica Pratt on their radio takeover.

Surrounded by murals from the Bushwick Collective, the LA-based songwriter plays “I’m the Same” and “Bad Eye Opal” from her new LP Eight Pointed Star live in Brooklyn.

After gracing our latest digital cover, Greg Gonzalez takes over the station to spin everything from Metallica to Sade.