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

Gloin, All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)
On their second album, the Toronto band taps into the fury of their post-punk forebears with a polished set of psychological insights that feel angry in all the right ways.

Great Grandpa, Patience, Moonbeam
An experiment in more collaborative songwriting, the band’s highly ambitious first album in over five years truly shines when all of its layered ideas are given proper room to breathe.

Bryan Ferry & Amelia Barratt, Loose Talk
This ghostly collaborative album with spoken-word artist Barratt finds the Roxy Music leader digging his own crates for old demos and warped melodies that went unused until now.
FLOOD Staff

photo by Adam Maresca
YG, TV on the Radio, and a whole lot of snowboarders get high in LA.

In case you don’t already know. Seems like pertinent info.

From the forthcoming “Who Cares About Tomorrow.”

photo by Todd Weaver
Plus Xander Singh lends a hand.

Analog synths, gentle moods, and “Doctor Who.”

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.