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

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Phantom Island
The Australian band’s growing comfort performing with orchestra musicians results in a bolder, brighter, more engaging, and more direct album than its predecessor.

Murder by Death, Egg & Dart
Each song on the Louisville-based gothic-Americana band’s final album is its own requiem, a tender farewell accepting of its fate.

The Bug Club, Very Human Features
Another collection of relentlessly charming and eccentric garage rock, this fifth album doubles down on the Welsh band’s signature stylized-raw production and unusual lyrics.
FLOOD Staff

Portraits and live shots from Seattle’s annual music and arts festival.

Dispatches from the Swedish group’s summer tour of Europe and the UK, which wrapped up last month.

Sleater-Kinney
Backstage shots of Nation of Language, HotWax, King Hannah, Water From Your Eyes, and more from Larmer Tree Gardens in Dorset, England.

With the folk-rock duo’s debut album One of a Kind out this week via ATO, Georgie Fuller and Will Turner walk us through an ideal day in the city they call home.

English Teacher, Yo La Tengo, Nation of Language, Jockstrap, Ty Segall, and more from the annual fest at Larmer Tree Gardens in Dorset, England.

The folk-rockers play through “Later On” from their sophomore album Now That’s What I Call Fantastic Cat, released earlier this summer.

The duo’s baguette-filled DJ set in LA coincided with the release of their third album last week.

Ahead of the release of the band’s third album Water the Flowers, Pray for a Garden, frontman Rob Laska walks us through an ideal day in the band’s hometown.

The rapper played two nights at the NYC arena in support of his new album Bando Stone & the New World.

The Dutch songwriter plays through “Like Only Lovers Could” and “I Wasn’t Gonna” from her new LP Chameleon, which arrives this Friday via New West.

Our latest digital cover stars’ “Tour of Earth” landed in Noblesville this past weekend.

Ahead of the release of his new LP Infinite Health this Friday, Scott Hansen spins tracks by Boards of Canada, Caribou, DJ Shadow, and more.

The dance musician took us behind the curtain for his recent set at San Francisco’s annual music and arts festival.

The Korean-Canadian songwriter’s sophomore album When a Thought Grows Wings is out now via In Real Life/AWAL.

The Chicago group plays through their 2015 track “Cottage Roads” for our latest subseries, which is dedicated to the music and arts fest on California’s Central Coast.

The New Zealand reared artist showcases the elaborate stage production for his upcoming shows in LA and NYC in support of his new LP SENESCENCE.

The songwriter gives an acoustic performance of her Bug track “You Know I Love You Still” in a backyard in LA.

Subtitled “101 Songs That Shaped a City,” the book co-authored by Eva Walker and Jacob Uitti (with an intro by Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready) is out tomorrow via Sasquatch Books.

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.