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

Big Thief, Double Infinity
Ditching the homespun folk-rock sound of their last record for otherworldly, jazz-infused transmissions, the group’s sixth LP is obsessed with the beauty and inefficiency of language.

David Byrne, Who Is the Sky?
With the aid of Ghost Train Orchestra and Kid Harpoon, Byrne continues his trek across urban prairies to explore our goofball commonalities, the quirks of romance, and his own intimacies.

Fleshwater, 2000: In Search of the Endless Sky
The Massachusetts grungegazers settle on their sound with their second LP: a balancing of frantic energy with moody heaviness and an overall tone of passionately charged emo splendor.
FLOOD Staff

Behind the scenes at Grant Park with Ratboys, Bôa, Wild Rivers, and Caroline Kingsbury.

The Marías, Clairo, Remi Wolf, Djo, Wallows, TWICE, Cage the Elephant, and more from Grant Park in Chicago.

Jonathon Linaberry plays the track “Heart Attack” from his new LP Radio Waves outside of his home in Upstate New York.

Backstage shots of FIDLAR, Cap’n Jazz, Say She She, The Exploding Hearts, and more from this past weekend’s festivities in Portland.

The band wrapped up their intimate theater tour with a three-night run in New York this week.

Behind the scenes at Fort Adams State Park with Lucius, Tyler Ballgame, Nova One, Mon Rovia, Snacktime, Anna Tivel, and Sammy Rae.

Hayley Williams, Jack Antonoff, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Public Enemy, Remi Wolf, Jeff Tweedy, Kim Deal, Alex G, S.G. Goodman, and more from the iconic three-day fest in Rhode Island.

The songwriter plays “Peach Sky,” the opening track from her newly released EP Bad Luck Is Two Yellow Flowers, in her hometown.

The museum’s summer concert series continues on July 31 with free live music in the courtyard.

25 records from the first half of the year that exhibit a bold sense of creative freedom.

The indie rockers perform “My Way to You” and “Wonder How” from their newly released debut album Hang a Star at Bay View Park in front of the San Diego skyline.

The museum’s summer concert series is back on July 17 with free live music in the courtyard.

The alt-pop songwriter sings the track “Static” from her new EP Adesso in her hometown’s lakefront park.

flipturn
Now in the midst of a North American tour supporting their latest album, Burnout Days, the Floridian indie rockers spin tunes by Phoenix, Great Grandpa, Magdalena Bay, and more.

We caught up with Trevor Powers in London where he got inked after a show at Islington Assembly Hall supporting his album Rarely Do I Dream.

Jordan Topf plays the tracks “Lose You” and “Shut Up and Kiss Me” from his self-titled debut outside of his studio in the Northeast LA neighborhood.

The Dublin post-punk band played their biggest show to date with Amyl & the Sniffers, Kneecap, Blondshell, Been Stellar, and Cardinals.

Having just announced their Sub Pop debut, Dance Called Memory, the synthpop trio spins singles by Cate Le Bon, Smerz, Tunde Adebimpe, and more.

The R&B/hip-hop collective performs their song “Ali & Jenn” from their recently released The Dial LP on the hiking route in the Santa Monica Mountains.

The avant-garde indie-pop band takes us on a walk through what may or may not be the back stage of Portland’s Revolution Hall.