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

Hotline TNT, Raspberry Moon
Will Anderson’s debut with a full band exhibits his fondness for crunchy shoegaze while incorporating a stripped-down, folk-referencing sound tinged with melancholic guitar.

Yaya Bey, Do It Afraid
In its 18 brief, blipping songs, the Brooklyn neo-soul artist’s latest venture into old-school rap, acid jazz, soca, and trip-dub is closer to a groove mixtape than a cohesive album.

HAIM, I Quit
The sister trio’s fourth full-length is a summer breakup concept record that’s intimate, powerful, and too scattered within its catharsis.
FLOOD Staff

The songwriter performs both “Montgomery Ricky” tracks in his backyard in LA.

The weekly podcast hosted by Aaron Axelsen will spotlight the best new tracks on FLOOD FM.

Brian Eno, Coldplay, Alt-J, and many others also contributed playlists to ClientEarth’s campaign driving awareness on the urgency for action on climate change.

Stream the best in new and classic indie, folk, hip-hop, post-punk, and everything in between now.

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.