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

Wisp, If Not Winter
Natalie Lu’s debut leans into the “pop” side of dream pop, exploring the double-edged sword of yearning with big builds and a combination of delicacy and pummeling sound.

The Armed, The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed
The Detroit punks’ sixth album is a consistent, melodic post-hardcore assault, maintaining a relentless pummeling in defiance to the system as much as it is to their recent pop streak.

OK Cool, Chit Chat
The Chicago duo pull the strings taut on their emo-pop debut, adding piano passages, guitar theatrics, and other flourishes to their established college-radio-rock sound.
FLOOD Staff

A section of the “Wish I Was Here” film poster
The last time The Shins were featured in a Zach Braff film, two of their most memorable songs (“New Slang,”…
With J.J. Abram’s Episode VII underway, Deadline reports that Lucasfilm is already eyeing Rian Johnson to write and direct Star Wars…

2014 promo photo for “Better Call Saul” with Bob Odenkirk from the AMC website
For those of you still mourning the loss of Breaking Bad, let your souls be soothed a bit by the news…

For the latest video from their excellent new album The Moon Rang Like A Bell, Hundred Waters uses the mystical imagery…

2014 “The Trip To Italy” press photo by Ciro Meggiolaro
Comedic duo Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are reuniting for a sequel to Michael Winterbottom’s largely improvisational (and completely hilarious) The Trip….

Fox is taking the well-known name of the crime-ridden Gotham City and giving us an origin story behind Commissioner Gordon’s (Ben…

Ben & Jerry’s has yet another way to ruin your dieting plans this summer with two new flavors inspired by…

Season 4 of Game of Thrones quickly had fans falling in love with Oberyn Martell, a prince of Dorne who…

Lizzy Caplan with Scott Aukerman on “Comedy Bang! Bang!” in 2014
Actress Lizzy Caplan (who plays sexologist Virginia Johnson on Showtime’s Masters of Sex) stopped by Comedy Bang! Bang! to discuss…

photo by Jeff Elstone
Exciting things are coming for fall, as Zola Jesus (aka multi-medium artist Nika Rosa Danilova) announces a new album with…

photo by Taylor Bronin
Self-described “beach-goth” group, The Growlers, are getting ready to release their fifth album this fall—a set of eleven new songs,…

Photo by Todd Cole
The Clavin sisters release their Kinks-inspired single “For The Feel.”

The video stars Stephanie Sigman, who obsesses over real footage of the group with mascara-stained eyes.

Photo by Marlene Marino
NYC trio Blonde Redhead has resurfaced after four years with a new single featuring lead singer Kazu Makino’s breathy vocals….

photo by Justin Tenney
The L.A. band announces debut album for Ty Segall imprint God? records.

photo by Ruth Swanson
White Fence’s Tim Presley has teamed up with Ty Segall once again to produce his fifth album, To The Recently…

photo by Rick Bahto
The sultry singer announces release of double A-side + vinyl reissue of Tragedy debut.


Demetri Martin in “Dean”
