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

The New York–based songwriter performs the track from his new LP “WANDERKID” in Killington, Vermont.

This week’s “Fave 15” podcast also includes Tank and The Bangas with Big Freedia, Hand Habits, Big Thief, and White Lies.

The songwriter brings two songs to ancestral grounds outside of Bushman’s Cave.

Megan Thee Stallion, Phoebe Bridgers, Tyler, the Creator, girl in red, and more took the stage this past weekend.

This week’s “Fave 15” podcast also includes IDLES, Wallows, MUNYA, and Spill Tab.

Grey plays her recent MNDR-produced single in the LA neighborhood.

Behind-the-scenes shots of some of our favorite up-and-coming artists from this past weekend’s Dover-set fest.

The Vermont collective’s major-label debut “Wherever You’re Going I Hope It’s Great” arrives Friday along with their appearance at Governors Ball.

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When photographer Timothy Hiatt wasn’t busy traipsing across the Douglass Park festival grounds shooting live performances at Riot Fest, he…

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.