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

L.A. Witch, DOGGOD
The tension between the bright, post-punk guitars and the darker aspects of the psyche expressed in the lyrics create something new and interesting for the LA trio’s third LP.

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Death Hilarious
The UK stoner-metal outfit’s fifth studio album is another collection of pummelling, heavy thrills, the sound of grimy darkness being warped into something transcendently fun.

Glare, Sunset Funeral
Transfixing from start to finish, the South Texas shoegazers’ debut is a dynamic, undulating audio portrait of the ups and downs of existence.
FLOOD Staff

The Australian quartet shares photos taken during and after their set at the Dana Point, California festival last weekend.

Fleet Foxes / photo by Okay Niicolita
The annual festival celebrated its third year at Seaside Park in Bridgeport, Connecticut this past weekend.

Shots of Remi Wolf, Conan Gray, Bleachers, Reneé Rapp, Hozier, Maisie Peters, and more from Merriweather Post Pavillion

Chappell Roan Drag Party
Julien Baker, Janelle Monáe, Ethel Cain, Samia, Holly Humberstone, Soccer Mommy, Coco & Clair Clair, and more from Forest Hills Stadium.

With their new album Flood out now, the indie-pop quartet spins tracks by Jessica Pratt, The Pogues, Hotline TNT, and more they’ve had on repeat.

Following the releases of his first solo album in 12 years and his debut memoir, Wynn performs the title track from Make It Right ahead of touring the new material later this month.

LCD Soundsytem
James Blake, Peggy Gou, Jamie xx, LP Giobbi, Thundercat, and more from the reconfigured annual fest in Las Vegas.

IDLES at Forest Hills credit Dutch Doscher 9
Both bands delivered enthralling performances at the Queens, NY venue this past Friday.

Air at Benaroya Hall in Seattle, WA / photo by Eric Tra
The French ambient-pop duo kicked off their North American tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of Moon Safari over the weekend.

With the songwriter’s new live film out now, he shares how Talking Heads, Nirvana, Jimi Hendrix, and more set high bars for the medium.

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.