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
Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo, In the Earth Again
Destruction and decay may be the themes explored by the unlikely collaboration of a noise-rock band and a folk guitarist, but instrumentally, they make it sound beautiful, lush, and gentle.
Soft Cell, The Art of Falling Apart [Super Deluxe Edition]
This six-disc collection expands upon the aggression, industrialism, and pernicious lyrics of the duo’s 1983 LP—a revenge, of sorts, on becoming pin-up darlings of the British new wave.
Miguel, Caos
The alt-R&B star’s fifth album embraces existential lyrical concepts to match its dusky jazz-electro sound, industrial ambience, and grouchy fuzzed guitars.
FLOOD Staff
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.
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.”
