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

The recent FLOOD cover star’s tour with her new band arrived in Los Angeles this week.

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Devo, OMD, Nation of Language, ’Til Tuesday, Provoker, Mareux, and more from the annual celebration of all things new wave, goth, and post-punk in Pasadena.

Zachariah Carlson plays the first two songs from his new Blue EP on a closed-down lifeguard tower in the aftermath of the LA wildfires’ recent devastation.

Featuring cameos from Jordana, Sedona, Tim Robbins, and Reggie Watts, the photos document Becca Harvey’s LA show supporting her new album Sweetness.

The recent FLOOD cover star’s Forever Is a Feeling tour stopped in LA this week with MUNA’s Katie Gavin and jasmine.4.t.

Sponsored by FLOOD, the August 1 event in partnership with the LA Phil will blend music, video, dance, and spoken word to tell the story of LA.

Keanu Reeves never accepted the band’s invitation to play bass with them, but Tony Hawk showed up.

Live shots, portraits, and behind-the-scenes pics from the songwriter’s release show and signing for her third album, Bloodless.

The Dirty Projectors member plays “In a Dream It Could Happen” from her new solo album Goodbye Long Winter Shadow, out now via Last Gang.

Behind the scenes shots with Grouplove, Of Montreal, Wild Nothing, and more from the fest grounds at Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.

TV on the Radio, Bloc Party, Empire of the Sun, and more from the nostalgia-heavy indie fest in Pasadena.

Before taking the stage this weekend in Pasadena in support of their new LP Mausoleum, the band will join us all week with a radio takeover.

FLOOD presented the band’s return to Los Angeles along with opener Sophie Hunter.

The English five-piece are in the midst of a North American tour supporting their third album, Cowards.

The New Mexico–based songwriter gives an acoustic performance of “Had To” from her newly released fifth album Want.

Michelle Zauner’s three-night run in Chicago featured opener Ginger Root.

On the heels of their new album Mortal Primetime, the NYC-based trio’s radio takeover features Sonic Youth, Hole, Nick Drake, and more.

Mt. Joy
Backstage shots with The Backseat Lovers, The War and Treaty, Medium Build, Goldie Boutilier, and others from the annual festival in North Charleston

The Dublin quintet brought their Romance tour to Nashville this week.

The Isaac Gale and Ryan Olson-directed film opens in Los Angeles on May 2 at the Nuart.