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

Jenny Hval, Iris Silver Mist
The Norwegian art-pop songwriter’s seventh album aims to incorporate senses beyond sound to more completely immerse the listener (and smeller) into her constructed domestic space.

Regal Cheer, Quite Good
At under 20 minutes, the sophomore album from the endearing Brighton duo is a jolt of punk-rock beauty, blissfully shambolic from start to finish.

Model/Actriz, Pirouette
The NYC-based project’s second album delights in its confident sense of chaos, with vocalist Cole Haden knowing full well there’s no way we’re going to avert our gaze for a single moment.
FLOOD Staff

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2014. Trapper Keeper Tablet Cover
Filed under “remember these??”: Kensington has resurrected the middle-school binders that kept you so organized (and awesome) that you just had to…

Hundred Waters performs live in 2014 at The Earl in Atlanta, Georgia / photo by Max Sweeney
Photos by Max Sweeney

This summer, Merge Records will celebrate their silver anniversary, and no, not with flatware. From July 28 through August 9,…

2014. Spoon press photo for “They Want My Soul” by Tom Hines.
Spoon has done it again, debuting yet another powerhouse preview of their upcoming album They Want My Soul. We’ve already…

Fifty years ago, on July 6, 1964, crowds of teenagers across the UK poured into movie theaters to see the…

The influential blues and soul musician has died at age 70.

A Sunny Day In Glasgow shared their new video for their Sea When Absenttrack, “In Love With Useless (The Timeless Geometry…

2014. Cloud Boat press photo by Simon Lesley
Cloud Boat, the London electronic duo of Sam Ricketts and Tom Clarke, have released a few singles in the lead-up…

This morning, Pink Mountaintops debuted the video for their latest single, “The Second Summer of Love,” off of their fourth…

2014 press photo of Tokyo Police Club. Photo by Andrew Strapp.
Tokyo Police Club’s “Hot Tonight” is one breezy summer jam fit for coasting along the highway with friends. Now the…

2014 press photo of Karen O. Photo by Barney Clay.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ frontwoman, Karen O, has collected some personal songs from 2006 and 2007, for what she calls her…

Sam Smith has publicly acknowledged his love of ’80s and ’90s soul singers, like Chaka Khan, Whitney Houston, and Luther…

“Two Weeks” encapsulates the allure of a rare, exotic bird—colorful, attractive, and unattainable.

Shabazz Palaces / 2014 / credit: Patrick O’Brien-Smith
Seattle-based hip-hop collective Shabazz Palaces have shared the second single from their upcoming album and it’s a bass-heavy, new black wave…

2014 press photo of Julian Casablancas + The Voidz by Colin Lane
The debut album from Julian Casablancas + The Voidz, Tyranny is set to drop on September 23 via Casablancas’s own Cult Records,…

Life Is Beautiful, the inspiring social platform that launched with a signature festival that brings together various forms of art…

Join us for a summer kickoff party with Best Coast (DJ Set) and Moonsville Collective.

A section of the “Wish I Was Here” film poster
The last time The Shins were featured in a Zach Braff film, two of their most memorable songs (“New Slang,”…
With J.J. Abram’s Episode VII underway, Deadline reports that Lucasfilm is already eyeing Rian Johnson to write and direct Star Wars…