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

Trish Hosein performs her 2016 single next to an Armenian BBQ spot in Los Angeles.

Joao Gonzalez performs “Ring True,” “Prudence & Poise,” and “Pool Steps” from his latest album.

Photo by Merritt Johnson, Art by Christian Petersen and Nicholas Galanin
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Singer/songwriter Kandle Osborne performs her latest single from “Set the Fire” with assistance from a couple friends.

Joined by a five-piece band, the Australian songwriter plays two tracks from her new album “Sixty Summers.”

This week’s “Fave 15” countdown also includes new music from Flight Facilities, Nnena, Juan Wauters, and Frank Turner.

Tom D’Agustino takes his “Homeschool: Book I” single to Greenpoint’s Msgr. McGolrick Park.

Recorded at LA’s Valentine Recording Studio, the track precedes a full release teased for later this year.

The Irish-born songwriter plays the opening track from her new LP in an English forest.

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The songwriter performs “It’s Still Cool If You Don’t” and “Cinnamon” in LA’s Eagle Rock neighborhood.

The video arrives on the heels of her first new music in three years.

Bergman’s debut solo album “Mercy” arrives this Friday via Third Man Records.

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The DC trio performs outside Chelsea Lee’s grandparents’ house.

Lord Huron / photo by Adrian Santos
This week, “FLOOD’s Fave 15” highlights new tracks from Lord Huron, Tkay Maidza, Lucy Dacus, and more.

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.