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

Ólafur Arnalds & Talos, A Dawning
This seamless collaboration fuses the Icelandic composer’s gentle, piano-based soundscapes with the late Irish artist’s poignant electronica and singular voice without ever feeling saccharine.

Gina Birch, Trouble
This second solo LP moves further into the Raincoats co-founder’s melodic mix of dub-rock, neo-jazz, skeletal R&B, and space-pop as she continues to eschew creature comforts.

Chat Pile, This Dungeon Earth/Remove Your Skin Please [Reissue]
This single-vinyl compendium welds together the two EP releases that preceded the OKC sludge-rockers’ formal introduction to the unwitting masses.
Kim March

The National / photo by Molly Adams
Their self-titled debut, “Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers,” and the “Cherry Tree” EP will return February 26.

Nancy Andersen walks us through the U.K. duo’s debut album that was four years in the making.

After teaming up for Sam I’s LP released earlier this year, the pair also discuss their preference for albums over singles.

The new project from Sam Spiegel’s N.A.S.A. teammate joins the producer to discuss how Tropkillaz works as a collaboration.

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.