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

The Black Keys, No Rain, No Flowers
The blues-rock duo sifts through wreckage in search of meaning and growth on their 13th album only to come up with answers that are every bit as pat and saccharine as the title suggests.

JID, God Does Like Ugly
After 15 years of writing and developing verses, the Dreamville rapper has become a master of the form on his fourth album as he finds resolution and comes to recognize his purpose.

Cory Hanson, I Love People
The Wand frontman’s fourth solo outing confronts American grift culture with hope and a communal spirit, as his backing players seem to prevent him from turning inward and catastrophizing.
FLOOD Staff

2016. “Yoga Hosers” clip
Kevin Smith’s latest film premiered at Sundance yesterday.

Here comes Johnny Yen again.

Father John Misty at Lollapalooza 2015 / by Chad Kamenshine
“Maybe, Sweet One, You Won’t Have Nightmares Tonight” was originally planned for a “Colbert” bit.

Ruban and Kody Nielson have been making music together for their entire lives. In addition to Kody’s having played on…

The North Las Vegas star is opening a string of dates for the new-wave band this spring.

Chemical Brothers “Wide Open” video grab
The “Born in the Echoes” track gets an appropriately surreal video.

The eight-minute film premiered at Sundance.

The Girlfriend Experience trailer
All thirteen episodes debut April 10 on Starz.

“That is more clothing than is usually associated with you.”

2015. Sound Board header in red
Our picks for the best tracks out there for the week of January 18–22, 2015. Headphone-tested, FLOOD-approved.

2016. The Callas press photo
“Half Kiss Half Pain” is out January 29 via Inner Ear/Rough Trade.

Iggy Pop in 1977 / photo by Michael Markos via Creative Commons
“Post Pop Depression” is out March 18 on Loma Vista.

Ta-Nehisi Coates // photo courtesy of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Margo Jefferson, Colm Tóibín, and more have been nominated for their published works.

2016. “Girls” season 5 trailer
“I’m going to choose to take that as a compliment.”

2016. The London Suede, “No Tomorrow” video
“Night Thoughts” will be available on February 5 via Warner.

The comedy duo returns with their first feature film.

Celebrate Tax Day with Polly Jean.

Bonnie Prince Billy “When Thy Song Flows Through Me” video
From the upcoming Peel Sessions compilation “Pond Scum”.

The first we’ve heard from the post-hardcore band since their 2000 classic “Relationship of Command”.

2016. Wild Nothing cred Shawn_Brackbill
The album of the same name is out February 19 on Captured Tracks