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

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Phantom Island
The Australian band’s growing comfort performing with orchestra musicians results in a bolder, brighter, more engaging, and more direct album than its predecessor.

Murder by Death, Egg & Dart
Each song on the Louisville-based gothic-Americana band’s final album is its own requiem, a tender farewell accepting of its fate.

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.
FLOOD Staff

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.

In addition to cuts from their classic 1998 album, the Bristol trip-hop duo surprised their audience with plenty of covers.

The band celebrated the twentieth anniversary of “S&M” in SF this weekend.

A round-up of what we’ve been digging lately.

Featuring stories on Carly Rae Jepsen, Jamila Woods, Jónsi of Sigur Rós, and Helado Negro.

We spent two days with The Marías behind the scenes of the annual San Francisco festival.