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

Phoenix, The Last Dinner Party, The Chemical Brothers, Róisín Murphy, and more from the annual festival in Spain.

From Massive Attack to Marvin Gaye, Red shares a mix of songs that inspired his latest LP Paranoïa, Angels, True Love.

25 of our favorite listens from the first half of the year.

The singer performs his single a cappella as a peaceful protest toward the injustices against the LGBTQ+ community.

Plus enter to win tickets to see Sparks and They Might be Giants at the FLOOD-sponsored Bowl show on July 16.

Enter to win a pair of tickets to see Sparks and They Might Be Giants on July 16, 2023

She performs outside of the cabin where she wrote much of her debut album, Playing the Part of You is Me.

The Smile at ACL Live at The Moody Theatre in Austin, TX. June 25, 2023. Photo by Daniel Cavazos
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood’s other group returned for the second swing of their US tour last night in Austin.

Credit ANGELA RICCIARDI
The Chicago-bred songwriter’s sophomore album Supermodels is out July 14 via Saddest Factory Records.

The Cure at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY. June 21, 2023. Photo by David Iskra
The new wave icons played three sold-out shows with The Twilight Sad in New York this week.

Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker’s sold-out tour hit the Steel City on Tuesday.

The newly reunited post-hardcore band played their first live show since 2019 on Friday.

The Bristol-based songwriter performs “Sound of the Morning,” “Float,” and “Alligator” at the Mattachine Steps, a monument dedicated to the gay rights organization the Mattachine Society.

The French pop songwriter’s new album The Fool is out now.

Jazmine Sullivan
From Leimert Park in LA to Central Park in NYC, here’s where you can catch some great music events to celebrate the holiday.

I Hope Hell Isn’t Real, the St. Louis–born songwriter’s debut EP for Epitaph Records, is out now.

Rina Sawayama, SOFI TUKKER, Lil Nas X, Suki Waterhouse, Ice Spice, Kim Petras, and more from Flushing Meadows Corona Park in New York.

The songwriter and Walking Dead star will release her latest album Swimteam in September.

The Australian songwriter/producer performs a stripped-down version of the single outside of his label’s offices on a recent visit to LA.

The UK bass trailblazer’s new collaboration-heavy LP The Rat Road is out now.