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

Osees, Abomination Revealed at Last
John Dwyer has crafted his most overtly political album yet in terms of both its lyrical and musical attack, with his band’s recent linear and pared-down punk style put to enjoyably cutthroat use.

Marianne Faithfull, Cast Your Fate to the Wind: The Complete UK Decca Recordings
Reissued for the first time in this six-CD box set are the British singer’s original Decca albums, along with a double LP of singles, B-sides, and rarities from the era.

Reneé Rapp, Bite Me
The pop star’s big voice and actorly prowess help convince us that the choppy, Sapphic-punkish pop and curt, self-reproaching snipe of her second LP burrow deep into her soul.
FLOOD Staff

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Tom Waits, courtesy of Anti
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Ice Choir “Pure Holiday” crop
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The Lego Movie header
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SNL Dr. Evil appearance Mike Myers
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2014. Joe Cocker press photo
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Willett Distillery bourbon barrels
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Snowpiecer screenshot
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The War on Drugs / 2014 / photo by Dusdin Condren
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Screenshot from Pink Floyd’s “Live in Pompeii”
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The Evil Within video games
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