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

The Bug Club, Very Human Features
Another collection of relentlessly charming and eccentric garage rock, this fifth album doubles down on the Welsh band’s signature stylized-raw production and unusual lyrics.

Activity, A Thousand Years in Another Way
The third LP from the pigeonhole-proof Brooklyn collective proves just how far they can stretch the boundaries of indie rock with this radically diverse set of songs.

Ben Kweller, Cover the Mirrors
Dedicated to his late son, the former grunge-pop wunderkind crafts something both touching and infectious as it moves through the stages of grief like landmarks on an epic summer tour.
FLOOD Staff

Hop Along / photo by Carlo Cavaluzzi
Our recommendations from the first month of a new decade.

From the return of Stereolab to the passing of David Berman, here’s the music news that shaped our year.

The best chats we had this year with our favorite artists spanning music, film, TV, and more.

We got around a lot this year.

Stressed about gift giving? We got you.

There’s a lotta TV out there. But this is the cream of the crop.

There’s really no telling what you’re getting into when you purchase a movie ticket anymore.

Olsen is on tour in support of “All Mirrors,” joined here by opener Vagabon.

Ten tracks we’ll go to the mat for.

Twenty-five records that brought joy in a tough year.

Our recommendations from turkey month.

We asked Charly Bliss, Best Coast, Grouplove, Local Natives, and more to tell us the records they loved most this decade.

Angel Olsen at Levitation in Austin, TX. November 7, 2019. Photo by Daniel Cavazos
Angel Olsen, The Flaming Lips, Chelsea Wolfe, Dinosaur Jr., and more brought their psychedelic sounds to Austin this past weekend.

Here’s what’s good.

Electrifying sets from Thom Yorke, Kali Uchis, King Princess, and more.

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2019 by David Iskra
Featuring sets from Emmylou Harris, Fantastic Negrito, Robert Plant, and more.

Recent stuff you should get into.

New York’s fab-est five hit the Doheny State Beach stage with a special appearance by Eddie Vedder.

She was one of the headliners at this year’s Dana Point, CA coastal fest.

Wanna see the electropop icons IRL? Of course you do.