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

Matmos, Metallic Life Review
Composed entirely from the vibrations of metal objects, the compact experimental duo’s new anticapitalist allegory is as unique a prospect as a fingerprint.

Turnstile, Never Enough
The Baltimore hardcore collective distills and expands the essence of their breakout 2021 LP, leaning into the tension between explosiveness and a resulting uneasy stillness.

Hotline TNT, Raspberry Moon
Will Anderson’s debut with a full band exhibits his fondness for crunchy shoegaze while incorporating a stripped-down, folk-referencing sound tinged with melancholic guitar.
Kim March

The Montreal indie collective offer a second sample from their forthcoming LP “Lovers Rock.”

The 17-year-old songwriter follows up a trio of EPs with a single co-written with The Vaccines’ Justin Young.

The clip channels Russian propaganda and a chain-smoking clown.

It’s the third single from “The New Abnormal,” which drops this Friday.

CHVRCHES / photo by Daniel Cavazos
The “Love Is Dead” single gets the social distance treatment.

Photoshoot with music band Grouplove. Shot for Flood Magazine on 3.10.2020. Photographed in Los Angeles, California.
The five musicians (and one mascot) sync perfectly on the “Grouplove group chat.”

The song will appear on his latest LP, “Rock Bottom Rhapsody,” which drops next week.

7th and Red River
Titles from this year’s festival will be screened for free on Prime over a ten-day period.

The Indian-American songwriter shares his latest single from the forthcoming album “Melismatic.”

The duo share on more single before the release of their third album, “Womb,” this Friday.

Preservation Hall Jazz Band by Jennifer Mccord
It’ll provide grants to the Hall’s Collective to help with expenses resulting from loss of work due to COVID-19.

Coinciding with the release of her second album, Devotion, the songwriter lists her favorite soulful jams.

The Toronto-based singer has released a new track off “JOYRiDE,” out April 23.

The vid features a rapping robot, dancing skeletons, and a life-size game of Operation.

Her second song of the year translates to “hurt me” in Spanish.

Their first new music since 2011…with bagpipes.

Father John Misty at Lollapalooza 2015 / by Chad Kamenshine
Proceeds go to the Recording Academy’s MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund.

The Detroit native made over 100 records and wrote more than 3,000 original songs.

Photos with Ladytron on Day 2 of their L.A. Fonda Theatre performance. Photographed for Flood Magazine on 3..1.19 in Los Angeles, CA.
Their playlist features Cocteau Twins, Harmonia, Françoise Hardy, and more.

The new “Always Tomorrow” dates are in September.