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

Various artists, True Names: A Benefit for Trans Youth
Worry Bead Records compiles tracks from Squirrel Flower, Remember Sports, 22° Halo, and more conjuring a wistful world of lo-fi elegance while raising funds for a very worthwhile cause.

Beach Bunny, Tunnel Vision
On their third album, Chicago’s grungey power-pop outfit neatly balances present-day anxieties with wistful nostalgia while sagely ruminating on existential struggle and broader social themes.

SUMAC & Moor Mother, The Film
Their debut collaboration stitches the poet/emcee’s potent oratory chops through the metal group’s free-form sounds to create an avant-garde epic concerning human rights, violence, and empire.
FLOOD Staff

Screenshot from Thurston Moore’s “Speak To the Wild” music video
In anticipation of this week’s release of The Best Day, Thurston Moore’s first solo release since the dissolution of Sonic…

Michael Robert Williams Photography. www.michaelwilliams.co.uk
For the latest in their Chasing The Sun series, Oasis recently rereleased one of their greatest albums, (What’s the Story)…

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Pop-culture artist icon Shepard Fairey has announced the creation of two limited-edition art prints of George Harrison, in honor of…

Michael Keaton as “Riggan” in BIRDMAN. Photo by Atsushi Nishijima. Copyright © 2014 Twentieth Century Fox.
In Alejandro González Iñárritu’s new cinematic masterpiece Birdman, Michael Keaton stars as a fictionalized version of himself—an aging former comic-book movie star—struggling…

Introducing the R&B duo’s new album with a one-of-a-kind audio/visual experience.

If you were one of the many (many) people that thought that the 2013 film Jobs, starring Ashton Kutcher as…

1970s HBO logo + tagline
In a move that signals much more trouble ahead for subscription cable companies, HBO revealed today that they are unveiling…

Viet Cong / 2014 / credit: Colin Way
Following the release of their attention-grabbing debut EP Cassette earlier this year, Viet Cong have announced their first proper album,…

Marvel Civil War header
In an announcement that carries with it huge implications for the future of the Marvel Universe, Variety laid out new…

The ever-present movement towards’90s nostalgia has found yet another artifact of decades past to revive. Myst, the classic, massively successful computer…

“Manhattan” title card
As Deadline reports, Manhattan, WGN America’s impressive and addictive 1940s historical drama, has been renewed for a second season. Set in…

LFO, “Frequencies” cover (cropped)
Earlier this week, Mark Bell—the acid house trailblazer and influential producer—died from complications due to surgery, as was announced by…

Colin Jost, Michael Che, and Stefon / Saturday Night Live 2014
This weekend, Saturday Night Live broadcast its third episode of the season by bringing back beloved cast member Bill Hader to…

More than 23 years after starring in the opening scene of his indie-classic Slacker, Richard Linklater is back in front…

Not so fast, NBC! Plans to revive Say Anything may be thwarted by the film’s own director, if he has any…say…in it. UPDATE: It was, he does.

4-8-3-8-2-8-1 Broad City titles
While Broad City‘s second season doesn’t premiere until January of 2015, that hasn’t meant that Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, creators and…

Austin City Limits 2014 October 3–5 Zilker Park Austin, Texas With the 2014 festival season slowly coming to a close, Austin City…

Screenshot from Pharrell’s “Gust of Wind” music video
Pharrell Williams continued his plot for world domination this morning, releasing a new video with the help of powerhouse collaborators…

Twin Peaks 2016
Oh my god, oh my god

2014. Hanni El Khatib RBSS show header crop
With the stacked 30 Days in LA series all set to take over the City of Angels throughout the month of November,…