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

Stereolab, Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Their first new album in fifteen years spins on an axis of subtly infectious refrains and gently askew rhythms—it’s avant-garde art-pop as something radically old yet experimentally new.

Sparks, MAD!
The Mael brothers’ 26th album purrs with sincere longings dedicated to romantic splits, though ultimately remains true to the duo’s idiosyncratic melody and tongue-in-cheek lyricism.

These New Puritans, Crooked Wing
The interplay of organ and voice throughout the Essex band’s fifth album creates a haunting document of the modern world wrestling for coexistence with the old world.
FLOOD Staff

Sprints, Taking Back Sunday, Pixel Grip, Sum 41, and more backstage shots from Chicago’s Douglass Park.

Zach Hurd plays “Setting Free” from his new LP Rivers in Lands End park, overlooking the Golden Gate strait between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay.

Ahead of the annual San Francisco festival this weekend, the event’s curator spins tracks from a few of this year’s biggest draws, including Jamie xx, Justice, and Shygirl.

Kneecap in New York, NY / photo by Dutch Doscher
The Irish rap trio performed their biggest US show yet in New York this week.

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.