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

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.

Find out how you can attend the August 13 performance for free.

Photo by Alex Waugh
This week’s “Fave 15” podcast also includes Porches, Park Hye Jin, IAN SWEET, Serena Isioma, and Sleigh Bells.

MNDR teams up with the LA-based chorus on “Want” from the songwriter’s recent LP “Hell to Be You Baby.”

This week’s “Fave 15” podcast also includes Charlotte Day Wilson, Remi Wolf, Torres, MUNYA, and Lala Lala.

Lunn revives the group’s “All or Nothing” single on a swing in England’s Presdales Forest.

This week’s “Fave 15” podcast also includes new music from Rüfüs Du Sol, Grace Mitchell, Geographer, and Amen Dunes.

Mike Deni’s new album “Down and Out in the Garden of Earthly Delights” arrives November 12.

It’s the title track from the songwriter’s debut EP, released last month via Mark Ronson’s Zelig Records.

photo by Mia Mala McDonald
This week’s “Fave 15” podcast also includes new music from Magdalena Bay, Jungle, Yola, and The Parrots.

The singer/songwriter performs the track from her newly released debut EP in her backyard.