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

Sly & the Family Stone, The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967
This unearthed 1967 live gig from Redwood City, California features raw, soulful R&B covers recorded with a roomful of memorable voices that audiences would soon grow to love.

Alex G, Headlights
Alex Giannascoli’s major-label debut earnestly embraces dated musical tropes only to turn them on their heads as they soundtrack explosions of messy emotional honesty.

Billie Marten, Dog Eared
The British indie-folk songwriter’s fifth album is aided by a full-band even in its most personal moments, as Marten reflects on indelible scenes from childhood as seen through adult eyes.
FLOOD Staff

Madelene Eliasson gives an acoustic performance of two tracks from her debut album This End Had No Beginning.

Sophie Allison will be taking over FLOOD FM all week beginning July 11 with hand-picked songs and stories.

Today’s show also includes new music from Maya Hawke, Pussy Riot, and SG Lewis.

The Summer Cannibals vocalist’s new EP I Think My Heart Loves to Break is out now.

photos by JOSEPH ROSS, JOSHUA MELLIN, ALEX LAKE, DANIEL CAVAZOS, AND DANIEL SANNWALD
25 albums that have stuck with us so far as the AOTY contenders continue to roll in.

The alt-soul duo bring their HARMINE single to Hampstead Heath.

The 20″ x 20″ silk-screened print, signed by Arens and numbered, benefits The David Lynch Foundation.

The duo bring “The Tree” and “Camera” to their nighttime set.

The rescheduled festival kicked off in Lisbon, Portugal this past weekend.

Sonia Kreitzer brings the single from her new EP of the same name to the San Bernardino Mountains.

The band headlined two shows at the historic open-air amphitheater outside of Denver.

The 48-hour streaming event kicking off on June 19 was also curated by Derrick Hodge, The Suffers, BLK ODYSSY, Boulevards, Kenndog, Seratones, Jayson Cash, Kah-Lo, and Jahi Sundance.

Bridgers even treated the packed New Jersey venue with a Bruce Springsteen cover.

The songwriter plays three tracks from her first album since 2008 on a stoop in Greenpoint.

Glass Animals, Japanese Breakfast, Denzel Curry, Soccer Mommy, Tove Lo, Shaq, and more from Citi Field in New York.

Phoenix, Sky Ferreira, Run the Jewels, Megan Thee Stallion, and more from Barcelona.

Gregg Gillis will be taking over FLOOD FM all week beginning June 13 with hand-picked songs and stories.

Today’s show also includes new music from Beach Bunny, of Montreal, and Maggie Rogers.

Ryan Kaiser’s debut album off the grid arrives this Friday.

Beck, Wet Leg, Caroline Polachek, Tame Impala, Charli XCX, and more highlights from weekend one in Barcelona.