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

10 tracks that made the year feel a little brighter.

25 records that helped us reorient ourselves to the outside world.

The Miami showcase also featured DJ sets from Keen One and the Desperate ApeWives collective.

Jade Jackson and Aubrie Sellers sing “The Devil Is an Angel” and “The World Is Black” from their recent collaborative album “Breaking Point.”

The LA-based songwriter gives an acoustic performance of the single to a rapt audience.

The band braves the heat to perform the closer to their recent EP “Is It Time to Eat the Rich Yet?”

With her new album “Valentine” out now, Lindsey Jordan will be sharing stories and guest DJing in the new episode airing all week.

This week’s “Fave 15” podcast also includes Day Wave, Rosalía feat. The Weeknd, Lo Moon, Courtney Barnett, Fana Hues, and VHS Collection.

Both tracks appeared on the songwriter’s recently released debut EP “A World Gone By.”

Maceo Vidal-Haymes plays an acoustic version of the track as the slow-zooming camera reveals his surroundings.

Burgess will be playing his favorite records from the early-’90s while reminiscing on the early Madchester days this Sunday.

ZHU
FLOOD FM will be running interviews recorded on the Golden Gate Park festival grounds from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. PST.

Halloween was in full swing this past weekend with Tame Impala, Vampire Weekend, Lizzo, Kehlani, Caroline Polachek, and more taking the stage at Golden Gate Park.

Kayla Graninger performs the track from her recently released debut LP “No Pain for Us Here” in her friends’ backyard.

The Hives
Japanese Breakfast, Thundercat, The Hives, black midi, and more from Halloween weekend in Austin.

This week’s “Fave 15” podcast also includes Ultra Q, Spoon, Snail Mail, Ross From Friends, Ruthven, and Deadmau5 feat. Foster the People.

The LA-based songwriter performs the recent single from his “Alchemy/Dark Corners” series.

Both tracks will appear on their debut LP “XVI,” out November 12 via Thurston Moore’s Daydream Library Series.

This week’s “Fave 15” podcast also includes Hannah Jadagu, Shamir, Smile x Robyn, Black Country, New Road, and Geographer.

The former Wild Beasts vocalist performs a track from his new solo LP at Low Sizergh Farm in the U.K.’s Lake District.