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

Regal Cheer, Quite Good
At under 20 minutes, the sophomore album from the endearing Brighton duo is a jolt of punk-rock beauty, blissfully shambolic from start to finish.

Model/Actriz, Pirouette
The NYC-based project’s second album delights in its confident sense of chaos, with vocalist Cole Haden knowing full well there’s no way we’re going to avert our gaze for a single moment.

Car Seat Headrest, The Scholars
Channeling Ziggy Stardust’s glam transcendence, Will Toledo resurrects the album as a grandiose narrative vehicle while marking his valiant stride into the rock canon.
FLOOD Staff

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,…

Following the announcement that a newly-translated Haruki Murakami novella called The Strange Library is to be published in December of this year,…

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Established in 2014, from the co-founder and editors that brought you FILTER magazine, FLOOD is a new, influential voice that spans…

Screenshot from the teaser to Pharrell’s “Gust of Wind” music video
The hat makes an appearance in its natural, forest environment.
The Adventures of Pete and Pete house band Polaris recently announced their first-ever tour and today we get a taste of…

Jeff Goldblum in Tim and Eric’s GE commercial.
Actor/musician/awesome person Jeff Goldblum is the face (and, fortunately in this case, body) of a new GE campaign to promote…

Screenshot from TV on the Radio’s “Happy Idiot” music video
TV on the Radio is back, and the band has brought Pee-wee Herman along for the ride. “Happy Idiot” is…

St. Vincent film still header
Austin City Limits is all set to kick off this Friday for two straight weekends of festival madness, but if…

Belle and Sebastian 2014 press photo / credit Søren Solkær Starbird
Watch the Glaswegian group in the studio as they lay down tracks for “Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance,” out January 20.

Screenshot from the “Inherent Vice” trailer
One of the most anticipated films of the year, Inherent Vice is looming on the Oscar season horizon, and it…

photo by Andrew Whitton
Whether you’re a fan or not, you have to admit that films in the “YA” genre have some pretty good…

Buck 65 / photo by Rob Campbell
We take a break with seasoned hip-hop artist Buck 65, who discusses his new album Neverlove by answering our five questions.

2014. Thom Yorke’s “Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes” header
This morning we opened our browsers to the unexpected news that Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke released a brand-new solo album titled…