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

Röyksopp, True Electric
With the help of guest vocalists including Robyn, Fever Ray, and Alison Goldfrapp, these clubby studio versions of the Norwegian duo’s recent live set push them further into the flame.

Backxwash, Only Dust Remains
The Zambian-Canadian noise-rapper returns from a brief hiatus with an existentialist exploration of death, violence, and, ultimately, love, a textural letter to the downtrodden and the hopeless.

Bon Iver, SABLE, fABLE
Following the story of a budding romance that helps heal Justin Vernon’s past relationship wounds, the LP is a slick and polished expansion upon the EP he released last fall.
FLOOD Staff

With the band’s 32-stop US run supporting their self-titled record kicking off next week, Brett Torrence shouts out the hand-picked local openers that just barely missed the cut in each city.

Clairo hosted a five-night residency at the relatively intimate LA venue before embarking on her Charm world tour.

With his seventh album Dreamweaver landing this week, the Danish dream-pop composer shares his itinerary for an ideal day in his hometown.

Behind-the-scenes shots from the annual festival in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina.

JPEGMAFIA, Snail Mail, MJ Lenderman, Wednesday, BADBADNOTGOOD, and more from the annual three-day festival in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina.

Gep Repasky performs a solo rendition of the unreleased track “Erase All the B’s” from the band’s forthcoming LP Everything Matters, Everything’s Fire.

The recent FLOOD digital cover stars are in the midst of an extensive world tour in support of their new album X’s.

The British duo spins tracks by The Dare, Yeasayer, Sabrina Carpenter, and more in the midst of their North American tour supporting their upcoming self-titled debut EP.

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.