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Insane Lineup for Burgerama Four Announced, Including Weezer, Ariel Pink, Ty Segall, and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

Along with the fantastic, low-key Woodsist Fest, Burger Records’ annual Burgerama festival has quickly become an indie rock tradition for…

December 09, 2014

2014 Holiday Gift Guide

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FLOOD Holiday Gift Guide 2014: Food/Drink

Stumped on what to buy someone on your gift list? Here at FLOOD, we polled the staff and put together…

December 09, 2014

2014. Beck press photo by Peter Hapak.

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Best Albums of 2014: Beck, “Morning Phase”

It would be pretty easy to write Beck Hansen’s twelfth full-length album off as Sea Change 2: Electric Boogaloo considering…

December 09, 2014

2014. Twin Shadow press photo by Milan Zrnic.

LISTEN: Twin Shadow Drops New Single, “Turn Me Up”

Twin Shadow, Los Angeles’s synthpop king, just dropped his newest single “Turn Me Up.” The nearly three-minute track is a…

December 08, 2014

2014. “While We’re Young” film still courtesy of A24 films

Film + TV
WATCH: Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts Cling to Their Youth in “While We’re Young” Trailer

The trailer for Noah Baumbach’s (Frances Ha, The Squid and the Whale) latest film While We’re Young follows the story of…

December 08, 2014

2014. Father John Misty, “Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins)” screenshot

WATCH: Father John Misty Goes Kaleidoscopic in Video for “Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins)”

In case you didn’t notice from the album trailer, things are starting to get pretty personal for Father John Misty…

December 08, 2014

Ellar Coltrane in Boyhood / 2014 / photo courtesy of IFC

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Best Films of 2014: “Boyhood,” directed by Richard Linklater

Richard Linklater’s 2014 tour de force comes twelve years in the making.

December 08, 2014

2014 Holiday Gift Guide

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FLOOD Holiday Gift Guide 2014: Outdoor/Adventure

Stumped on what to buy someone on your gift list? Here at FLOOD, we polled the staff and put together…

December 08, 2014

Courtney Barnett / 2014 / photo by Leslie Kirchhoff

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Best Albums of 2014: Courtney Barnett, “The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas”

At the beginning of 2014, whenever you turned on the radio (to a college or indie station), you might have…

December 08, 2014

James Turrell, Afrum (White), 1966, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, partial gift of Marc and Andrea Glimcher in honor…

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Druggiest Museum Exhibit (Without Having To Actually Do Drugs) of 2014: “James Turrell: A Retrospective” at LACMA

American artist James Turrell is the foremost exemplar of the visual art field called the Southern California Light and Space…

December 08, 2014
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FLOOD’s Best of 2014

Over the next two weeks, we’ll be celebrating the year in the best way we know how: looking back at our…

December 08, 2014

2014. Nick Garcia, “Untitled” (Pablove Shutterbugs)

Art & CultureEvents
Pablove Shutterbugs’ Fourth Annual Gallery Show In Los Angeles

Pablove Shutterbugs, an excellent program that teaches and encourages children with cancer to thrive artistically and creatively through the medium…

December 05, 2014

Dr. Strange circa 1960 / illustration by Steve Ditko

Film + TV
Benedict Cumberbatch Tapped to Play Marvel’s Doctor Strange [UPDATED]

Updated December 4, 3:00 p.m. : Marvel has finally confirmed that Cumberbatch will play Doctor Strange in the Phase 3…

December 04, 2014

2014. Moon Duo press photo by Claudia Kershaw-Rae

LISTEN: Moon Duo Announces New Album, Share Raw Single, “Animal”

For Moon Duo’s third full-length release, Shadows of the Sun, the band claims that they were working in a “rest…

December 04, 2014

2014. Sleater-Kinney Reddit AMA proof photo

LISTEN: Sleater-Kinney Premieres New Track “Surface Envy” in Reddit AMA

Between the twentieth anniversary box set Start Together, the announcement of a new LP No Cities to Love, and details of…

December 03, 2014

2014. “Togetherness” trailer on HBO

Film + TV
WATCH: The New HBO Mumblecore Show “Togetherness” Has a Trailer

Though HBO might not seem like the most natural landing place for the hyper-realistic, low-budget mumblecore genre, with past films like…

December 03, 2014

Diamond Rugs gatefold from “Cosmetics”

Bar Band Supergroup Diamond Rugs Announce New Album, “Cosmetics”

The boozy bar band Diamond Rugs, which features members from Deer Tick, Black Lips, Dead Confederate, and, um, Los Lobos…

December 02, 2014

Teen Daze / 2014 / credit: Landon Speers

LISTEN: Teen Daze’s Dreamy, Slow-Burning New Single, “Reykjavik, January 2015”

Off of forthcoming EP “A World Away.”

December 02, 2014

PJ Harvey / 2011 / by Seamus Murphy

Art & Culture
PJ Harvey Readies Book of Poetry for 2015, Shares Clip of Her Reading “The Guest Room”

Following the release of 2011’s Let England Shake, PJ Harvey travelled extensively around the world with photographer and filmmaker Seamus…

December 02, 2014

Screenshot from Title Fight’s “Chlorine” video

WATCH: Title Fight Steps Into the Great Beyond in Video for “Chlorine”

Over the last three years, the Kingston, Pennsylvania, band Title Fight have made a name for themselves as standouts in the Northeastern…

December 01, 2014
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