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

Big Thief, Double Infinity
Ditching the homespun folk-rock sound of their last record for otherworldly, jazz-infused transmissions, the group’s sixth LP is obsessed with the beauty and inefficiency of language.

David Byrne, Who Is the Sky?
With the aid of Ghost Train Orchestra and Kid Harpoon, Byrne continues his trek across urban prairies to explore our goofball commonalities, the quirks of romance, and his own intimacies.

Fleshwater, 2000: In Search of the Endless Sky
The Massachusetts grungegazers settle on their sound with their second LP: a balancing of frantic energy with moody heaviness and an overall tone of passionately charged emo splendor.
FLOOD Staff

Ella Coyes plays the title track from their upcoming sophomore LP Believer, out this Friday via Royal Mountain.

The Breeders’ leader performed with a 10-piece backing band that included string and horn sections.

The Australian band plays “Love Is Off the Table” while touring last year’s Enough of the Sweet Talk LP.

The Spanish indie rockers kicked off the second leg of their Viva Hinds tour in Los Angeles over the weekend.

On the heels of his new solo LP, The Walkmen frontman spins tracks by Beach House, Talking Heads, Violent Femmes, and more.

A$AP Rocky
Sexyy Red, Destroy Lonely, Ken Carson, and more from the world’s biggest hip-hop festival’s Los Angeles edition.

Grace Bowers, Confidence Man, Mon Rovîa, Ivan Cornejo, and more from the three-day pop-up experience in Austin.

The French songwriter plays “Fusées” and “Partout” from her new album De l’autre côté while visiting LA for the first time.

Plus Gurriers, Baths, Wishy, Sedona, Man/Woman/Chainsaw, Delivery, and Cardinals from backstage at the Mohawk.

The LA-based alt-folk ensemble’s Conner Reeves shows us how to make the perfect everything bagel.

As the Swedish punks hit the road for their North American farewell tour, Dennis Lyxzén shares his favorite tunes from the next wave of hardcore bands including Scowl, Gel, and Candy.

Shots of jasmine 4.t, Baths, Delivery, Wishy, Man/Woman/Chainsaw, Cardinals, OneDa, Sierra Spirit, and Sedona from our 10th anniversary celebration at the Mohawk at SXSW.

One lucky winner and their guest will be flown out to Pasadena for the annual post-punk/new wave fest, along with a meet-and-greet with Devo.

Additional behind-the-scenes shots of TEED, UPSAHL, Dev Lemons, Beach Weather, and The Strike from the annual non-profit event in Phoenix.

Baths, Wishy, Gurriers, Man/Woman/Chainsaw, Delivery, OneDa, Cardinals, Sierra Spirt, and Sedona will also perform at the March 14 event at the Mohawk in celebration of our 10th anniversary!

Following the release of her new album Armageddon in a Summer Dress, the songwriter performs acoustic versions of “Oh Bondage Up Yours!” and “You’re a Better Man Than I.”

We’re spotlighting all the artists set to play our 10th Anniversary celebration at the Mohawk at SXSW this week.

Boston’s Fleshwater opened the show at the famed Los Angeles arena.

Grace Bowers, Mon Rovîa, NSQK, Sierra Spirit, Laila!, Damaris Bojor, Jess Meilman, and Mobley are also on deck to perform at the immersive pop up experience in Austin.

Devi Mambouka takes us to France, Singapore, Gabon, and other locations where she conceived of and recorded her second collection of dark-ambient music.