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

M(h)aol, Something Soft
On their second LP, the Dublin trio weave through belligerent post-punk and quasi-industrial aesthetics, manipulating song structures and having fun with atonal soundscapes.

Ezra Furman, Goodbye Small Head
A glitchy folk-punk opera like a pastoral take on Lou Reed’s Berlin, the songwriter’s quivering-yet-empowered latest sees her knocked down—but never knocked out.

Youth Code, Yours, with Malice
The EBM duo continues to test new waters with their debut EP for metalcore label Sumerian, inviting experimentation on each of these five bone-rattling recordings.
FLOOD Staff

CW Stoneking / photo by Kane Hibberd
From Ethiopian jazz to Hank Williams to Kanye West.

It’s been six months already?

Best Coast / photo by Jasmine Safaeian
To kick off summer ’16, we had Bethany and Bobb spin some tunes and Moonsville Collective give a campfire serenade.

Roskilde / photo by Vegard S. Kristiansen
Guds hjælp, Folkets kærlighed, Danmarks styrke!

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Featuring cover stories on Neil Young and Dr. Steve Brule.

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.”

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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?

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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.