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

Lorde, Virgin
The pop star retains the tainted-love throb of electro rhythm on a fourth LP that’s high on affection, low on gloss, and geared toward transcendence and sneaky sexuality.

Frankie Cosmos, Different Talking
Greta Kline’s sixth album finds her clicking with her new band, lending these songs a DIY quality reminiscent of her early demos despite digging into themes exclusive to adulthood.

BC Camplight, A Sober Conversation
The UK-via-NJ songwriter’s blackly comic neo-chamber-pop missive on sobriety still manages to speak to the upbeat without a snip of excess emotion.
FLOOD Staff

Beskin and his band perform the track from their debut album Somewhere Sideways Same as You in the neighborhood of Normaltown.

The annual psych-rock (and beyond) fest took over Downtown Austin for Halloween weekend.

After returning with the new single “City of Angels,” the British electropop group takes over the airwaves.

Hot off a summer tour with HAIM, Kane Ritchotte and Malcolm McRae have also revealed the new single “Another Change.”

Both tracks appear on the Canadian songwriter’s new EP Mouse.

From his morning cold brew to vintage shopping to a night at the movies, the singer-songwriter reveals his perfect day in his hometown.

Ahead of their US tour in November in support of 20 years of The Invisible Band, the indie rockers perform their period-defining single in Kelvingrove Park.

Lizzie Killian performs the track from her self-titled debut EP, out now via Asian Man Records.

Plus backstage shots of SOFI TUKKER, Nation of Language, Sloppy Jane, L’Impératrice, and others from the annual festival in Texas.

The LA-based songwriter will be spinning tunes and sharing stories on a new episode airing daily October 17-21.

The video arrives ahead of the duo’s full set scheduled to air this Saturday, October 15, on PBS.

Joined by Great Grandpa’s Al Menne, the songwriter performs two tracks from his new LP Quitters.

Plus shots of MUNA, Carly Rae Jepsen, Japanese Breakfast, SZA, and other acts from weekend one in Texas.

Liz Stokes and John Pearce will be spinning tunes and sharing stories on a new episode airing daily October 10-14.

The track will appear on the electro-pop duo’s third LP Chrysalism.

Ahead of the release of Alpha Zulu, Thomas Mars and Laurent Brancowitz will be spinning tunes from their personal record collections.

Queen, Pink, Rush, Them Crooked Vultures, Joan Jett, Alanis Morrisette, and more paid tribute to the Foo Fighters drummer.

The track comes from the Americana mainstays’ album El Mirador released earlier this year.

Shots from the inaugural electronic music festival at Pier 80 in San Francisco.

Shots of Sunny Day Real Estate, Alice Glass, Taking Back Sunday, The Joy Formidable, and more from Chicago’s Douglass Park.