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

Ólafur Arnalds & Talos, A Dawning
This seamless collaboration fuses the Icelandic composer’s gentle, piano-based soundscapes with the late Irish artist’s poignant electronica and singular voice without ever feeling saccharine.

Gina Birch, Trouble
This second solo LP moves further into the Raincoats co-founder’s melodic mix of dub-rock, neo-jazz, skeletal R&B, and space-pop as she continues to eschew creature comforts.

Chat Pile, This Dungeon Earth/Remove Your Skin Please [Reissue]
This single-vinyl compendium welds together the two EP releases that preceded the OKC sludge-rockers’ formal introduction to the unwitting masses.
FLOOD Staff

Shots of The Flaming Lips, Run the Jewels, Morrissey, Smashing Pumpkins, Slipknot, Vic Mensa, and more from Chicago this past weekend.

Rose performs the track from her recent LP “Headwaters” on the roof of Citizen Vinyl.

The second live edition of Porter Robinson’s Oakland-set fest included sets by Toro y Moi, Madeon, and Jai Wolf.

Shots of St. Vincent, Tame Impala, Green Day, HAIM, Brittany Howard, and more from the annual music and art festival in Las Vegas.

Photo by Shawn Brackbill
This week’s “Fave 15” podcast also includes Metronomy feat. Biig Piig, Charlotte Cornfield, Kaina, and Magdalena Bay.

The Tokyo-based songwriter plays through the track from his recent debut LP in the seaside city.

Shots of Phoebe Bridgers, Big Thief, Erykah Badu, Animal Collective, and more from this past weekend’s event in Chicago’s Union Park.

Photo by Eric Voake
This week’s “Fave 15” podcast also includes Lana Del Rey, MUNA with Phoebe Bridgers, Sports, Big Thief, and Guided by Voices.

The Brazilian artist performs a live version of his recent take on the track in front of a dramatic natural backdrop.

Watch Morris perform “Fake Gold” and “DirtRocker” from “The Digital Age of Rome” at Athens’ Zomba Farm.

This week’s “Fave 15” podcast also includes Sleigh Bells, Helado Negro, MUNYA, BANKS, and Porches.

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Remembering the Rolling Stones legend with an interview by Sonic Youth’s drummer originally published in the September 1996 issue of “RayGun Magazine.”

The songwriter plays an acoustic take on the Cirque Du Freak single from a balcony in the California desert.

This week’s “Fave 15” podcast also includes Still Woozy, Bakar, Circuit des Yeux, and The Wombats.

This week’s “Fave 15” podcast also includes Danny Elfman and Trent Reznor, Jorja Smith, Big Thief, and Phoebe Bridgers covering Metallica.

On the heels of “Leave the Bones,” their new collaborative album with Joseph Ray of Nero, the collective performs two tracks in their native Haiti.

This week’s “Fave 15” podcast also includes Joey Purp, Duran Duran with CHAI, Hand Habits, and Mehro.

Tyler, the Creator, Foo Fighters, Megan Thee Stallion, Modest Mouse, and more took the stage this past weekend in Chicago.

While most of the news coming out of Lollapalooza 2021 centered around the large maskless crowds amidst the surging Delta…

16-year-old songwriter Kali Flanagan performs an acoustic version of the track from her recently released debut EP.