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

Various artists, True Names: A Benefit for Trans Youth
Worry Bead Records compiles tracks from Squirrel Flower, Remember Sports, 22° Halo, and more conjuring a wistful world of lo-fi elegance while raising funds for a very worthwhile cause.

Beach Bunny, Tunnel Vision
On their third album, Chicago’s grungey power-pop outfit neatly balances present-day anxieties with wistful nostalgia while sagely ruminating on existential struggle and broader social themes.

SUMAC & Moor Mother, The Film
Their debut collaboration stitches the poet/emcee’s potent oratory chops through the metal group’s free-form sounds to create an avant-garde epic concerning human rights, violence, and empire.
FLOOD Staff

Austin Crane is joined by vocalist Amy Godwin in his backyard to perform his recent album’s title track.

“This Is Really Going to Hurt” arrives this Friday via Island Records.

Episode 3: Easter Sunrise at the Hollywood Bowl
Revisit 100-year-old archival footage from the Bowl’s first show, and hear gospel duo Mary Mary perform this Sunday, April 4.

The song will be included on the group’s debut LP “Introducing…The Pink Stones,” out April 9 via Normaltown Records.

Episode 7 of “Punk as Fuck” pairs Abraham with the author and punk culture archivist among Turcotte’s collection of memorabilia.

Weekes returns to his old stomping grounds in the video presented by Toyota and Fender Next.

The punk-rock illustrator joins the Fucked Up frontman for a crate dig.

January 20 marks the first day of a post-Trump America—here’s what artists are saying.

The Flesh Eaters’ Chris D. and podcaster Tom DeSavia join the pair as they talk LA punk.

The Fucked Up frontman meets comedian/punk rocker Ray outside Donut Friend in Highland Park.

17 new tracks to jam over your (much needed) winter break.

10 series that made sheltering in place a little easier.

The third episode of “PAF” takes us to a recording studio in “the new Topanga.”

The 10 movies that made us miss theaters most.

10 tracks that make the best of a chaotic year.

Here are our picks for the 25 albums that kept our spirits up in 2020.

Support Fair Fight and Stop Poaching Now with these shirts and masks.

The second episode of the series takes place at Moby’s vegan restaurant Little Pine.

Episode 1 sees the Fucked Up frontperson meet up with Albini and Germs drummer Don Bolles at Hollywood staple Roscoe’s.

Fairey also discusses engaging in activism through public art in our new video interview.