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The Los Angeles Issue

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. 

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Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles

Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.

Cola Boyy, Quit to Play Chess

Despite bristling with Matthew Urango’s familiar cotton-candied disco, the late songwriter and activist’s sophomore album also opens the floodgates to everything else he seemed capable of.

yeule, Evangelic Girl Is a Gun

The London-via-Singapore alt-pop songwriter continues to experiment on their fifth album, with the heaviest and weirdest moments also feeling the most authentic and energizing.
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Serial Logo Collage.

Art & Culture
“Serial” Is Back with a New Nick Thorburn Score

The podcast’s second season started yesterday.

December 11, 2015

2015. “X-Men: Apocalypse” trailer

Film + TV
WATCH: The End Is Near in “X-Men: Apocalypse” Trailer

“Or the Bible got it from him…”

December 11, 2015
LISTEN: Prince Rama Head to “Bahia” on New Single

From the forthcoming “Xtreme Now”

December 11, 2015

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Staff Picks
Sound Board: The Week’s Best Tracks

Our picks for the best tracks out there for the week of December 7–11, 2015. Headphone-tested, FLOOD-approved.

December 11, 2015

Oscar at FLOODfest Brooklyn / photo by Marc Lemoine

PREMIERE: Oscar Laments “Breaking My Phone” at FLOODFest Brooklyn

The London singer brought his single to our official CMJ party at Brooklyn Bowl this fall.

December 10, 2015

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – DECEMBER 10: A general view of atmosphere at the 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards nominations announcement…

Film + TV
Award Season Rolls Along: The 2016 Golden Globes Nominations Are Here

“The Revenant,” “Carol,” “The Big Short,” and Netflix lead the way.

December 10, 2015

Tijuana Panthers press pic.

PREMIERE: Tijuana Panthers Take a Trip to the Past in New Video for “Power Plant”

The California trio also announced a string of winter tour dates.

December 10, 2015

A Response To Our Oceans: A Collection Curated By Adrian Grenier And Powered by Dell / photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images For Dell

Art & CultureEvents
RECAP: A Response To Our Oceans: A Collection Curated By Adrian Grenier and Powered by Dell

FLOOD presented the evening at this year’s Art Basel.

December 10, 2015

Barack Obama Between Two Ferns

Art & CultureFilm + TV
Barack and Michelle Obama Reveal Their Best of 2015 Picks

Songs, TV shows, books, and more.

December 09, 2015
Hadda Be Playing on the Jukebox: TouchTunes Releases Most-Played Tracks from Nation’s Sports Bars

And anywhere else those Internet-connected jukeboxes are found.

December 09, 2015
Art & Culture
I’ll Buy: Definitive Replacements Biography to be Released in March

“Trouble Boys: The True Story of The Replacements” was written with the band’s cooperation.

December 09, 2015

2015. Field Music The Noisy Dais Are Over video screenshot

WATCH: Field Music Faces the Ghost of Indie Past in “The Noisy Days Are Over” Video

The Sunderland, England, group’s fifth LP “Commontime” is out February 5 via Memphis Industries.

December 08, 2015

Sundance logo

Film + TV
Sundance Film Festival Announces 2016 Lineup [UPDATED]

Here’s what you’ll be hustling around Park City to see this January.

December 08, 2015

Prince at Coachella / photo by Penner via Creative Commons

WATCH: Prince Covers “Creep” at Coachella 2008

There’s no telling how long this video will be online, so watch it now.

December 08, 2015
Film + TV
WATCH: Jon Stewart Returns to “The Daily Show” to Stump for the Zadroga Act

“I heard about this in American TV—have you come to take your show back?”

December 08, 2015

Actress and Broadway star Cicely Tyson (L), Conductor Seiji Ozawa (2nd-L), actress and singer Rita Moreno (C), filmmaker George Lucasa (2nd-R), and singer-songwriter Carole King (R) are introduced at a 2105 Kennedy Center Honors recipients, December 6, 2015 during a reception at The White House in Washington DC. AFP Photo/ Chris Kleponis / AFP / CHRIS KLEPONIS (Photo credit should read CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP/Getty Images)

Art & CultureFilm + TV
George Lucas, Carole King, Rita Moreno, and More Celebrated at Kennedy Center Honors

The complete ceremony will air on CBS on December 29.

December 07, 2015

Sleigh Bells “Champions of Unrestricted Beauty” video

LISTEN: Sleigh Bells Share “Champions of Unrestricted Beauty”

And offer very few details to go along with it.

December 07, 2015

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Nominees for Fifty-Eighth Grammy Awards Announced

Kendrick Lamar leads the way with eleven nominations, including Album of the Year.

December 07, 2015
Staff Picks
FLOOD’s Best of 2015: Music (#25–5)

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. 2015 has been rough in a lot of ways, but it’s been…

December 07, 2015

Matisyahu on “Guitar Center Sessions”

PREMIERE: Matisyahu Rocks “King Without a Crown” on Guitar Center Sessions

The entire episode drops tonight at 9 p.m. ET on AUDIENCE Network.

December 04, 2015
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