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

Lorde, Virgin
The pop star retains the tainted-love throb of electro rhythm on a fourth LP that’s high on affection, low on gloss, and geared toward transcendence and sneaky sexuality.

Frankie Cosmos, Different Talking
Greta Kline’s sixth album finds her clicking with her new band, lending these songs a DIY quality reminiscent of her early demos despite digging into themes exclusive to adulthood.

BC Camplight, A Sober Conversation
The UK-via-NJ songwriter’s blackly comic neo-chamber-pop missive on sobriety still manages to speak to the upbeat without a snip of excess emotion.
FLOOD Staff

The track closes out Blair Howerton’s project’s second LP Wish on the Bone, which is out now via Fire Talk.

PJ Harvey at Terminal 5 in New York, NY / photo by Dutch Doscher
The alt-rock icon is in the midst of a North American tour suppporting 2023’s I Inside the Old Year Dying LP.

The recently reunited Brazilian dance-punk quartet will be playing their last US show “for a long while.”

Matthew Caws gives an acoustic performance of their single “In Front of Me Now” from new LP Moon Mirror and “Come Get Me” from 2020’s Never Not Together.

The inaugural event at LA’s Belasco will also feature Olivia Jean, The Paranoyds, ADULT., Babe Haven, the magic of Zabrecky, and others on November 23.

The Tulsa-based trio’s second LP Talker is out this week via Bright Antenna Records.

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.