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

Motel Radio / no credit
Who says being smart has to mean being boring?

All People / no credit
Infiltrate the scene created by the New Orleans quartet.

Harpooner / no credit
The former Indianans take you to the lake.

Dark, sophisticated pop from LA’s Dre Babinski.

Pop cultural reminders that you don’t need a million-karat ring to feel like a million damn bucks.

Miguel / photo by Orlando de la Cruz
Miguel, De La Soul, Nothing, and more, all looking good in the rain.

It’s the second installment of our new video series with Original Penguin.

2016. Moon Bros. press photo
“These Stars” is out July 8 via Western Vinyl.

Stefan Weich / no credit
Being heartbroken rarely sounds so warm.

Brass Bed / photo by Allison Bohl DeHart
From the Louisiana group’s latest album, “In the Yellow Leaf.”

Stephen Stills by Michael Muller crop
Backstage at the all-star charity show, the eminent Michael Muller captured the likes of Stephen Stills, Jack Black, Judd Apatow, Christina Applegate, and Jakob Dylan.

Joseph Arthur / photo by Ehud Lazin
From the singer-songwriter’s forthcoming album “The Family.”

photo by Ellie Stills
The fourth annual benefit for Autism Speaks was an all-star affair underscoring the healing power of rockin’ in the free world. Stephen’s daughter, Alex Stills, reports.

If “Angry Birds” can be the most popular movie in America, why not Google Maps?

Holy Stokes premiere header 2
Directed by Russell Houghten, the project is a two-years-in-the-making international tour of the skating world—all in beautiful 4K ultra-HD.

2016. Andy Shauf Under the Influence screenshot
In this premiere installment of our new video series, the Canadian folk artist talks us through—and strips down—the opener from his ANTI- debut, “The Party.”

The Portland metalsmiths return with their second album, “Love.”

The Atlanta sextet heads to the lake with a Super 8 in this clip for the nostalgic opener from last year’s “Faces.”

2016. Ziemba press photo cred Megan Mack
“Hope Is Never” is out June 24 via Lo & Behold.

“We’ve got a squirrel.”