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

Goon, Dream 3
Both brighter-eyed and harder-hearted, the LA quartet return with a third LP of full-bodied psych-shoegaze which settles deeply into Kenny Becker’s cataclysmic transitional life period.

Ólafur Arnalds & Talos, A Dawning
This seamless collaboration fuses the Icelandic composer’s gentle, piano-based soundscapes with the late Irish artist’s poignant electronica and singular voice without ever feeling saccharine.

Gina Birch, Trouble
This second solo LP moves further into the Raincoats co-founder’s melodic mix of dub-rock, neo-jazz, skeletal R&B, and space-pop as she continues to eschew creature comforts.
FLOOD Staff

Broken Social Scene
Illuminati Hotties, White Denim, Broken Social Scene, and more turned up the heat at the Cedar Street Courtyard.

Big Boi / photo by Rozette Rago
It’s time to pay respects and recognize the real March madness: SXSW in Austin, Texas. FLOODfest is ready to make…

We’re bringing the noise back to the Cedar Street Courtyard in Austin, Texas, from March 12 & 13 with Leikeli47, Priests, Illuminati Hotties, Kari Faux and more.

For one night, the spirit of New Orleans was alive in snowy Park City.

Arcade Fire’s Win and Regine with Preservation Hall Band at Make Change event at Sundance in Park City, UT. January 26, 2019.
“If you go to a village and hear music it’s a sign of life. It’s a sign that something is happening besides pure survival.”

Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s Charlie Gabriel. Photo by Danny Clinch
Salesforce’s Make Change is a new series that celebrates music as a platform for change, taking place the first weekend of the Sundance Film Festival in Park City.

Have some panicked last minute holiday shopping to do? Look no further.

Arcade Fire, 2018 by Paul Costello
This fundraising event combines Haitian culture with New Orleans party spirit.

Ten tracks we relied on in an ever-changing year.

Ten shows worth making the time for.

Ten movies we think are wild and weird and worthwhile.

Twenty-five albums to kill your loneliness. Or at least make it suffer a little.

The new Levi’s flagship store celebrated New York with performances from Ms. Lauryn Hill, Q-Tip, Julian Casablancas, De La Soul, Raekwon, and Chic, plus DJ sets from Questlove and Nick Zinner.

Our biggest print edition yet features four cover stories across two collectible versions, as well as stories on John Carpenter, Spiritualized, Dawoud Bey, boygenius, Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, and much more.

Find out if Mars is a wack planet or not in episode two of the webseries “Wu-Tang In Space Eating Impossible™ Sliders.”

Conversations with five cultural influencers and corporate executives who’ll be attending WORLDZ 2018.

A$AP Rocky / photo by Adrian Santos
After a year’s hiatus, the Bay Area festival returns, albeit in a new location.

Owen Ashworth doesn’t wanna be your dog, but he wouldn’t mind hearing the song you wrote about your pet.

Beck / photo by Luis Moreno
The Eddie Vedder–curated SoCal festival featured all of your favorite artists covering all of your favorite songs.

Phoenix / photo by Laura Studarus
Fifty artists. Three nights. 177 traffic citations. 5,280 feet above sea level.