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

Bob Mould, Here We Go Crazy
Explicitly pitched as a response to the unrest of early 2025, the former Hüsker Dü leader’s first album in five years continues to confidently summon instant-earworm hooks and visceral thrills.

Vundabar, Surgery and Pleasure
The infectious Boston trio’s sixth album adds some complexity to their signature jangle with darker, rougher textures, though its lyrics don’t always live up to the music’s maturity level.

Alabaster DePlume, A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole
Informed by the dualities of harm and healing, the English saxophonist and poet weaves a tapestry of sounds—spiritual jazz, folk, classical, and beyond—into a potent missive of grace.
FLOOD Staff

Population 51,201.

Proceeds from all covers of the band’s “I Love You All the Time” are going to help victims of the recent Paris attacks.

2015. Sound Board dec
Our picks for the best tracks out there for the week of December 14–18, 2015. Headphone-tested, FLOOD-approved.

Al Pacino in “Misconduct”
The legal thriller is out February 5.

PJ Harvey in new album trailer
The as-yet-untitled record drops sometime this spring.

2015. Pussy Riot by Igor Mukhin https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pussy_Riot_by_Igor_Mukhin.jpg
The New Balkan Women’s Museum will be located in Montene

2015. Star Wars episode one vinyl
Listen to “Duel of the Fates” below.

2015. “Fuller House” teaser
Life is full again.

Macaulay Culkin in :DRYVRS
Macaulay Culkin reprises his Home Alone role. Yes, actually.

Tina Fey in “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot”
The Afghani war comedy hits theaters next March.

EMEFE / photo by Sasha Arutyunova
The NYC funk group’s self-titled album was released this fall.

Our picks for the best arts and culture moments of 2015.

2015. Shepard Fairey at YouTube Space LA. Photo by Jasmine Safaeian
“Art has a power to heal as well as provoke.”

2015. National Film Registry logo
“Being There,” “The Shawshank Redemption,” and “Ghostbusters” are among the lucky additions.

The landmark album has sold thirty million copies in the US since its 1982 release.

Pusha T does “Sunshine” on The Daily Show
The Virginia Beach rapper also performs the recently released “Crutches, Crosses, Caskets.”

2015. Stephen Colbert as Han Solo
“Think about somebody else for once, Harrison Ford!”

Don’t touch that dial.

2015. “High Rise” trailer
Ever wanted something more?

The LA bandleader participates in Amoeba Music’s “What’s In My Bag?” series.