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

Mister Romantic, What’s Not to Love?
John C. Reilly’s latest role as a lonely vaudevillian singer of Great American Songbook standards sees him unwrap each melody and lyric without irony or snarky dispatch.

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.
Randy Bookasta

The free, FLOOD-sponsored day party on April 26 in LA will feature sets by the Local Natives co-founder and Kaycie Satterfield to benefit MaeDay Rescue.

See the full list of nominees, including some surprise nods for Charli XCX, Chappell Roan, André 3000, Fontaines D.C., IDLES, and Doechii.

Tue Aug 13 — Los Angeles, CA — YouTube Theater
“The band have made the difficult decision to take some time away as a group.”

The duo also revealed their biggest US headline tour to date, kicking off September 18 in Austin.

“This is our fond farewell to 2023. Our PUNK gesture for a better future.”

Fishbone, Shepard Fairey, Rancid’s Tim Armstrong, and a “super secret special guest” will also appear at the event benefiting Musack on October 13 and 14.

Studio visit with Risk, Estevan Oriol & Jim Evans. Photographed for Flood Mag.
From car and surf culture to their connections to LA rock, punk, and hip-hop, these artists have had a profound impact on visual art in our city.

Photo by Alicia Sadler
The song also features guitar work from Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready and percussion by Lauren Brown.

Photo by Edward Colver
Catching up with the photographer whose iconic images helped to define the birth of LA’s punk scene.

In other news, Gallagher says he and brother Noel are “both the problem” in Oasis feud.

The first live show in Los Angeles since the pandemic unfolded raised funds for PLUS1 for Black Lives Fund and Summaeverythang.

Jane Oranika (aka emerging rap star Chika) has never been a stranger to speaking out, with her voice first gaining…

photo by Violeta Alvarez
The remaining members of FoW will reunite for the first time in seven years.

The full-length film can be watched here.

The movie that helped launch the career of a teenaged Nicolas Cage is now streaming.

The track is from their new “Dancing on the People Remix EP.”

Questlove, Flying Lotus, Chance the Rapper, Kacey Musgraves, Flea, and many others on the passing of the soul giant.

Jarvis Cocker, Fred Armisen, Devendra Banhart, Ben Gibbard, Marcos Valle, and many others will perform in support of MusicCare’s COVID-19 relief fund.

Tierra Whack, James Blake, and Jason Isbell take on covers by the likes of Radiohead, Roxy Music, and John Prine.

The band members took turns curating picks from the extensive online archive.