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

Bruce Springsteen, Tracks II: The Lost Albums
This new box breaks down seven well-framed sets of sessions spanning 1983 to 2018, essentially designed as full-album capsules of mood previously deemed unfit for canonization.

Gelli Haha, Switcheroo
The songwriter’s debut is carefree, sleazy, fundamentally arresting dance music—a multi-sensory circus serving to wallpaper the halls of dance-pop history with neon, acid-tinged nonsense.

Wavves, Spun
The LA band’s eighth LP eschews distortion in favor of a cleaner pop-punk sound that both spotlights Nathan Williams’ songwriting chops and dulls the project’s compelling eccentricities.
Kim March

The single arrives with a much-needed peaceful video following a particularly stressful week.

The video arrives ahead of their collaborative album “Plastic Bouquet,” out December 11 via New West Records.

The songwriter performs the single from her “dawn” EP in Fort Greene Park.

Ambre photoshoot for Flood Magazine on September 18, 2020, in New Orleans, LA.
The LA-based songwriter returns to friends, family, and gumbo in New Orleans in the clip presented by Toyota and Fender Next.

The track will appear on the six-piece’s “Midnight Manor,” out this Friday.

Watch the band celebrate the release of recent single “I Love Us” in the clip presented by Toyota and Fender Next.

Along with the official remix, the rapper announced the #TimesUpRemix competition for Black women and non-binary people.

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“Feeling Down” and “Car Song” arrive ahead of the Austin rockers’ anticipated full-length.

The roots-rock star also announced a headlining gig at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium for 2021.

David Gordon sets the jangly track from his forthcoming “Tropical Depression” to a cooped-up, psychedelic visual.

The group also shares a release date for the full first season of “Song Machine,” which includes features from St. Vincent, Beck, JPEGMAFIA, and many more.

“What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down” drops September 25.

St. Vincent / photo by Laura Studarus
The X Japan drummer reworks Annie Clark’s 2017 “MASSEDUCTION” single.

It’s the latest single from the band’s sixteenth album “American Head,” out September 11.

Savage’s piano-and-strings LP “Life Is Crazy” drops October 2 via Arbutus Records.

Portugal. The Man / photo by Adrian Santos
The “Annie” classic arrives alongside original songs by Sia, Chromeo, and Tove Lo on the track list.

With her “The Campground” EP announced today, Ortiz shares the songs she looks to for confidence.

James Mathé’s teases a yet-untitled 2021 release from his one-man electronica outfit.

Anderson .Paak & the Free Nationals
The online fest includes live and archival sets from Gorillaz, D’Angelo, Sharon Van Etten, and many more.

The line of bandanas designed by world-class artists goes on sale today on eBay.