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

Jenny Hval, Iris Silver Mist
The Norwegian art-pop songwriter’s seventh album aims to incorporate senses beyond sound to more completely immerse the listener (and smeller) into her constructed domestic space.

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.
FLOOD Staff

The punk band returns to NBC after being banned for nearly three decades.

Phantogram header from the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on 9/5/2014 / Photo by Alix Spence
Photos by Alix Spence


Behind the music and the songs of Nick Cave, there is a brilliant and fascinating man. 20,000 Days On Earth…

2014 press photo of Karen O. Photo by Barney Clay.
We’ve been waiting for Karen O to release Crush Songs for quite some time now. It’s her first solo album, featuring…

Some of the members of Radiohead have been pretty busy in the last few years with their own side projects….

2014 “David Bowie Is” documentary still
David Bowie’s career is marked by iconic music, memorable visuals, and unique costumes that are so quintessentially…Bowie. The Victoria and…

2014 Aphex Twin press photo for “Syro”
Richard D. James, better known as Aphex Twin, has emerged from musical obscurity after thirteen years of mostly silence. The…

With so many arts and culture festivals popping up around the country, it’s hard to distinguish which weekend offerings are…

Writer-director-actress Miranda July doesn’t believe technological communication should replace human interaction, but she also knows that phones are something we…

From left to right: Hannah Murray as Cassie, Olly Alexander as James and Emily Browning as Eve in Stuart Murdoch’s…
After decades of writing songs filled with visual imagery, Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch has finally turned his storytelling talents…

2014. The New Pornographers, “Brill Bruisers” album art
Their sixth full-length Brill Bruisers takes another wild stab at salvaging the vigor present during the group’s invincible stretch from 2000’s Mass Romantic to 2005’s outright classic Twin Cinema.

In the third installment of their brand-new music series, Urban Outfitters Live presented Vancouver natives, and all around badasses, White Lung.

Future Islands performing at the Fonda Theatre in Hollywood on 8/21/2014/ Photo by Alix Spence
Samuel T. Herring and Future Islands do what they do best: make you dance.

2014. “Nightcrawler” trailer.
No, this is not a Marvel movie, but that doesn’t make this Nightcrawler any less interesting and action-packed. There’s a…

2013. Darkside press photo by Tim Jones.
Multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington and electronic musician Nicolas Jaar have announced an end to their collaboration project Darkside, posting on Facebook:…

Making his directorial debut, Charlie McDowell (the son of Malcom McDowell and Mary Steenburgen) has brought us something magical with…

Outside Lands Festival 2014 August 8–10 Golden Gate Park San Francisco, California Taking place right in the heat of summer, crowds took…

Blood Orange [header] at Lollapalooza 2014 / Photo by Misha Vladimirskiy
Behind-the-scenes at Lollapalooza 2014 with Blood Orange, Jungle, Temples, Chromeo, London Grammar, and more. Photos by Misha Vladimirskiy.

Second by Bryan Lee O’Malley
If you’re one of those who wore out your copies of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s brilliant Scott Pilgrim series (and perhaps…