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

Glixen, Quiet Pleasures
Compelling yet uneven, the strongest compositions on the Phoenix shoegazers’ sophomore EP are often also the most experimental.

Anxious, Bambi
Calling back to the “big swing” pop-punk records from the turn of the millennium, the Connecticut band’s sophomore release is emotionally intelligent and impressively fine-tuned.

Patterson Hood, Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams
The Drive-By Truckers frontman’s first solo album in over a decade both softens and complicates the alt-country band’s barroom-rock formula, distinguishing itself to mixed results.
FLOOD Staff

The comedian catches up with her friend and tourmate to discuss the indie-pop songwriter’s new album Asteroid, writing about relationships, and what it means to be “couhl.”

Die Spitz
The Dare, illuminati hotties, Frost Children, Fcukers, Fat Dog, Die Spitz, and more from Halloween weekend in Austin.

The Atlanta rap duo take us behind the curtain of their celebration of their fourth album at Foro Indie Rocks! in Mexico.

The Australian six-piece brought their marathon three hour live experience to the iconic LA venue over Halloween weekend.

IDLES, Paris Texas, Sunny Day Real Estate, and more from Deftones’ fifth annual fest in San Diego.

Following the release of her third album, the LA-via-London alt-pop songwriter spins tunes by Dominic Fike, Clairo, FINNEAS, and more all week.

The songwriter played four nights at the Los Angeles venue.

Kash Doll, Lakeyah, Yung Gravy, Skilla Baby, and others performing at 18 free nonpartisan events aiming to increase voter turnout.

Sarah Walk plays through “The Truth,” the opening song from her newly released album When I Get Through, outside the studio space in her backyard.

Robert Alfons spins Autechre, Provoker, New Order, and more as he hits the road this week for a North American tour.

Backstage at Place Bell in Laval, QC, 9-16-24
Behind the scenes on the historic 22-city tour.

Dan Smith shares how podcasts, his dad’s old notebook, and, of course, caffeine helped fuel his latest project.

Backstage in Vegas with L.S. Dunes, Pierce the Veil, The Wonder Years, 3OH!3, and others.

Leading up to the release of her sophomore solo record, A Love You Cannot Shake, Pascal Stevenson takes us to some favorite spots in East LA, North Hollywood, and beyond.

Jimmy Eat World, Coheed and Cambria, The Used, Dashboard Confessional, and more from the 2000s nostalgia mall-punk fest in Las Vegas.

Emma Hardyman teases the release of her band’s new album Dear Divine with an acoustic performance of the yet-unreleased track “bashful lovers.”

The new wave, goth and post-punk fest returns May 17, 2025 with Madness, OMD, Blancmange, Garbage, Stereo MC’s, Alison Moyet, and the reunion of Aimee Mann’s ‘Til Tuesday.

With her new album Dotr out now, the electronic artist spins tracks by SOFI TUKKER, Fleetwood Mac, Four Tet, Goose, and more.

The FLOOD-sponsored event on October 24 at ACL Live is the result of a nationwide Community College Concert Competition to get out the vote.

The high-concept art-pop musician takes us behind the scenes of her recent hometown release show for Triple Fire in LA.