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

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.

Perfume Genius, Glory
Backed by the incredible team he’s assembled over the years, Mike Hadreas’ seventh release is a folk album that remains as slippery, electrifying, and brilliantly unknowable as its lead single.

Gloin, All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)
On their second album, the Toronto band taps into the fury of their post-punk forebears with a polished set of psychological insights that feel angry in all the right ways.
FLOOD Staff

Here’s your chance to score his limited-edition guitar as well as a signed poster of our recent cover with the songwriter.

The garage-rock revivalists perform the single from their latest EP, Ameripop!.

Following the release of the mariachi EP reworking songs from his 2022 collaboration with Panda Bear, Peter Kember shares some favorite works of Latin pop, Mexican folk, and beyond.

Behind the scenes pics with Fat Dog, illuminati hotties, Death Valley Girls, Girl Ultra, and more from the annual fest in Austin.

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.”