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

Blood Orange, Essex Honey
Dev Hynes’ guest-filled yet distinctly lonely first album in seven years takes his usual complex arrangements, epic electronica, and intricate melody-making and pushes them into the red.

The Hives, The Hives Forever Forever The Hives
The Swedish garage-rockers’ seventh album feels lean and mean from the jump, with their lovable braggadocio bursting at the seams on what feels like another fiery debut.

Margo Price, Hard Headed Woman
For every tender moment on the country artist’s fifth album there’s one of wind-blow abandon, a yin and yang that complements her split allegiance to the genre’s rich history and the present day.
FLOOD Staff

The Denver duo keep their heads in the clouds.

In case you happen to be looking for an excuse to get out of the country for a bit.

photo by Cara Robbins
The former Passion Pit member confronts the loss of love and his sense of self on his new album “Muffin.”

The recent City Slang signee played a sundown set for us in her hometown of Tel Aviv.

Prince-approved and straight from Australia, the funk-rock maestro was in support of his upcoming LP, “Smoke Fire Hope Desire.”

Taken from the “AMMA RMXD” LP, out now via Foehn.

Mute your TV. Turn up your stereo.

The darkwave Brooklyn band released “If Language” back in September.

photo by Sean Macneil
The New York quartet’s new album Bloodshot Tokyo is out February 3.

Radiohead, Beyoncé, and Kendrick Lamar are your headliners.

Our pals from the worlds of music, film, and TV offer their lists for the best of the year.

Our favorite tracks of the year, (almost) all in one place.

Media’s boundaries are more porous than ever, and great artwork abounds. So does weirdness.

Has the era of the antihero come to an end?

Don’t get too comfortable.

Great year for music, terrible year for everything else.

The Brooklyn duo’s ludicrously titled second album, “You Can Catch a Lobster With Eggs But Not Egg Salad,” is out February 10.

At this point, we’ll take any excuse to celebrate.

photo by Todd Walberg
The onetime sound guy for Portugal. The Man has a sound of his own.

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The Oakland-based dream pop act brought their chill to the Original Penguin store in Chicago—sans rhythm section.