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

Bob Mould, Here We Go Crazy
Explicitly pitched as a response to the unrest of early 2025, the former Hüsker Dü leader’s first album in five years continues to confidently summon instant-earworm hooks and visceral thrills.

Vundabar, Surgery and Pleasure
The infectious Boston trio’s sixth album adds some complexity to their signature jangle with darker, rougher textures, though its lyrics don’t always live up to the music’s maturity level.

Alabaster DePlume, A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole
Informed by the dualities of harm and healing, the English saxophonist and poet weaves a tapestry of sounds—spiritual jazz, folk, classical, and beyond—into a potent missive of grace.
FLOOD Staff

photo by Santos Social Club
Belle and Sebastian, Fleet Foxes, Kaytranada, and more play in the Bay.

Party at the lake house.

FLOODfest Chicago 2017 / photo by Carlo Cavaluzzi
Sylvan Esso, Grace Mitchell, Gus alt-J, and Flint Eastwood helped a massive crowd ball to the break of dawn.

The drink menu for your “Twin Peaks” viewing parties is now finalized.

The filmmaker—and expert in all things Beastie Boys—gives us an inside look at the music video career of MCA’s Swiss uncle, who was definitely a real person.

Your festival food experience doesn’t have to be limited to the confines of the festival itself.

Tame Impala / photo by Joyce Jude
Setting sail to Randall’s Island.

photo by James Richards IV
Still plenty of sand in the hourglass.

Plus, enter to win a trip to Chicago to take in the whole weekend.

The crowd at FYF Fest / photo by Rozette Rago
“Missy…[checks notes]…Elliott?”

James Sunderland and Brett Hite reveal the songwriting bonafides that power their synth-pop jams.

We’re halfway there.

For International Albinism Awareness Day, the “White African Power” producer shares how music gave a forgotten people a sense of self.

June gloom be damned, we got summer started on a Hollywood rooftop.

Throwing it back to a Slab Session so nice we premiered it twice.

The erstwhile folk-rockers get knotty.

photo by David Iskra
Hope comes to SF.

photo by Conor Collins
Wanna see movies of your dreams? Look no further.

The head chef at Reykjavik’s DILL is our guide in the latest episode of our video series touring the cities that inspire the world.

(Photo by Todd Cooper / @toddcooper)
You may wanna float right into the weekend on this one.