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

We’re returning to Sin City for a Life Is Beautiful pregame featuring St. Vincent (DJ set) and more to be announced.

Rock and roll, bitch, HoV BK was into it.

Prep for your next festival destination with an XMU-curated playlist featuring St. Vincent, Arcade Fire, Jack White, and more.

SiriusXM’s Alt Nation DJ and music programmer Jeff Regan breaks down eight rising festival artists you don’t want to miss.

Florence + the Machine / photo by Adrian Santos
Eleven years after its debut, the Golden Gate Park extravaganza continues to push away the fog.

The Growlers-curated festival returns with a brand new energy—not to mention a resurrected Ramones.

St. Vincent / photo by Carlo Cavaluzzi
Japanese Breakfast, St. Vincent, and Just Loud tore up the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel for FLOODfest’s fourth year.

Featuring Annie Clark in conversation with Phillipa Price, and Arcade Fire in conversation with Preservation Hall Jazz Band, plus Lizzo, Sunflower Bean, Jungle, and more. Presented by Toyota and SiriusXM.

Plus, enter to win a trip to Chicago to go to Lollapalooza as well.

In celebration of our eighth print issue, Roy Choi offered up food wisdom for the ages.

photo by Cindy Barrymore
Kicking off their month-long East Coast arena tour, the English experimentalists brought their operatic live show to the Madhouse on Madison.

From Amen Dunes to Yo La Tengo, twenty-five releases from this year that are leading the pack.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs / photo by Joyce Jude Lee
The NYC-based music festival’s eighth year featured headlining performances by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Travis Scott, Eminem, and Jack White.

Depeche Mode / photo by David Iskra
The new wave legends took Sactown by storm with special guests BRMC.

photo by Kirby Gladstein
The FLOOD 8 cover star played her new album in its entirety for a packed congregation at the converted synagogue venue.

Our latest print edition is our first-ever double issue, featuring four cover stories—on Jack White, Courtney Barnett, Roy Choi (in conversation with Portugal. The Man), and Kate Berlant and John Early.

Sunflower Bean / photo by Carlo Cavaluzzi
Photographer Carlo Cavaluzzi captures Kurt Vile, Dr. Octagon, and more between sets.

Day three of FLOODfest SXSW featuring Porches, Kurt Vile, Speedy Ortiz, and more.

Starcrawler / photo by Carlo Cavaluzzi
Day two of FLOODfest SXSW featuring Starcrawler, Jukebox the Ghost, Lucy Dacus, and more.

Dr. Octagon / photo by Carlo Cavaluzzi
Day one of FLOODfest SXSW featuring Dr. Octagon, Hinds, Cut Chemist, and more.