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

PinkPantheress, Fancy That
The UK artist’s second mixtape features an EP’s brevity and an album’s worth of heft, all built upon breathless, sample-heavy instrumentals that form an unlikely sense of cohesion.

Rilo Kiley, That’s How We Choose to Remember It
Serving as a refresher course alongside the band’s reunion, this quasi-greatest-hits collection cements Jenny Lewis’ status as an indispensable figure in the lineage of indie-rock songwriters.

Preoccupations, Ill at Ease
The Calgary post-punks couldn’t sound more comfortable in their own skin on their ironically titled fifth album, which seamlessly alternates between joyful and haunting moods.
FLOOD Staff

Ten shows that kept us watching, through binge and cringe.

Ten movies that defined the year, for better or for worse.

Twenty-five full-lengths that kept us going, one way or the other.

Ten compositions that changed our landscapes, big and small.

Our latest print edition features Miguel in conversation with Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova, and an in-depth chat with artist Sage Vaughn.

Eighteen food and drink recipes straight from the stars of the fest’s fourth year.

Featuring in-depth stories on Hundred Waters, Buff Monster, Vince Staples, and Demetri Martin, in addition to our picks and tips for this year’s festival slate.

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.