With the Cleveland art-punk icon passing away this week at the age of 71, we look back on some of his band’s greatest moments captured on video.
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Artifacts of an Avant-Garde Avatar: Remembering Pere Ubu’s David Thomas
Words: A.D. Amorosi
Photo: Beth Herzhaft
Backstage Camera Roll
Backstage Camera Roll: Eyedress at Coachella 2025
Words: FLOOD Staff
Photos: Razy Faouri
d4vd on Getting His Flowers with Debut Album Withered
Words: Soren Baker
Photo: Max Durante
Backstage Camera Roll
Backstage Camera Roll: Parcels at Coachella 2025
Words: FLOOD Staff
Photos: Luca Young
EventsLive, In Photos
Live, in Photos: Magdalena Bay and Sam Austins at Terminal 5
Words: FLOOD Staff
Photos: Kimberley Ross
5 Questions with Cloth
Words: Kurt Orzeck
Photo: Sandra Ebert
Track by Track
Uwade Walks Us Through Her Debut Bouquet of Songs Florilegium
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Shervin Lainez
First Listen
bob junior Links Up with Kidsnot$aints. on New Track “eu te amo bebê”
Words: Kim March
Photo: Jean Pierre Narvaez
First Listen
Pleasure Pill Balance All of Their Influences on Latest Single “My Way to You”
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Brandon Mosquera
Japanese Breakfast Shares “Winter in LA” Video, Adds More 2025 Tour Dates
Words: Will Schube
HAIM Share Another New Single, Announce Fourth Album I Quit
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Terrence O’Connor
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Flyte Celebrate the Process of Healing on New Single “Hurt People”
Non-Musical Influences
5 Non-Musical Influences on Heart Attack Man’s Reckless New LP Joyride the Pale Horse
Natalie Bergman Announces New Album My Home Is Not in This World
First Listen
Daisy the Great Rediscover Their Innocence on New Single “Mary’s at the Carnival”
This Is Lorelei and Snail Mail Join Forces for New Version of “Two Legs”
Miki Berenyi Trio, Lol Tolhurst, and Lol’s Son Gray Unite for “Stranger”
Neighborhoods
Watch SYML Perform at Evan’s Creek Preserve in Sammamish, Washington for “Neighborhoods”
Neighborhoods
Watch Levi Evans Perform in His Backyard in LA for “Neighborhoods”
Neighborhoods
Watch King Pari Perform Before Chicken Boy in LA’s Highland Park for “Neighborhoods”
Neighborhoods
Watch Lucette Perform Two Songs in Snowy Toronto for “Neighborhoods”
Neighborhoods
Watch Sister Ray Perform on a Rooftop in Toronto for “Neighborhoods”
Neighborhoods
Watch Lime Cordiale Perform in a Parking Lot in Durham, North Carolina for “Neighborhoods”
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Watch Laura Cahen Perform Two Songs in Highland Park for “Neighborhoods”
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d4vd on Getting His Flowers with Debut Album Withered
The 20-year-old songwriter talks moving on from his “rose” era as he shifts the focus of his music to personal experiences.
Words: Soren Baker
Photo: Max Durante
Art & CultureFilm + TV
The Liberation of Yoko Ono
Biographer David Sheff and documentarian Kevin Macdonald discuss working to set their mutual subject free from the misogyny and misinformation of her Beatles-damning past.
Words: A.D. Amorosi
Photos: courtesy of Magnolia Pictures
In Conversation
Tunde Adebimpe Built a Scale Model of His Grief with Thee Black Boltz
The TV on the Radio vocalist talks finally connecting with Sub Pop for the release of his solo debut and the tragic loss that overshadowed this occasion.
Words: Will Schube
Photos: Xaviera Simmons
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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
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The Los Angeles Issue
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.
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Yaya Bey Announces New LP Do It Afraid, Shares Two Singles
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Cody Lidtke
Non-Musical Influences
5 Non-Musical Influences on Ian Isiah’s New Single “Big One”
Words: Mike LeSuer
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S.G. Goodman Meditates on Our Poor Relationship with Nature on New Single “Satellite”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Ryan Hartley
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CIVIC Offer Up a Buffet of Riffage with New Single “The Hogg”
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Marcus Coblyn
First Listen
David Franklin Courtright Enlists Julianna Barwick for Debut Single “Feels”
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Jonathan Vivaas Kise
Film + TVFilm Review
Come All Ye Sinners: Ryan Coogler’s Southern-Gothic Vampire Film Is Bloody Brilliant
Words: Melanie Robinson
The Cure Recruit Four Tet, Mogwai, Orbital, and More for Lost World Remix Album
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Kevin Allen
Pulp Announce September North American Tour
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Annie Lesser
Neighborhoods
Watch SYML Perform at Evan’s Creek Preserve in Sammamish, Washington for “Neighborhoods”
Words: FLOOD Staff
An Introductory Guide to the TV on the Radio Extended Universe
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Piper Ferguson
Lucy Dacus, Doechii, Djo, Clairo, Remi Wolf, and More Headlining All Things Go NYC 2025
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Christian Sarkine
First Listen
bug crush Keeps Pushing Forward with New Single “Tugboat”
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Monika Levcenkovaite
Backstage Camera Roll
Backstage Camera Roll: Lola Kirke
Words: FLOOD Staff
Photos: Kimberley Ross
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Sunflower Bean, Mortal Primetime
The New York trio’s first self-produced album has a smooth, consistent, quietly confident sound quality that reflects the elegance that’s always been at their core.
BRUIT ≤, The Age of Ephemerality
The French post-rock band lyrically addresses the unthinkable progress and regression of our post-internet age via droning metal and modern-classical sound on their second LP.
Fly Anakin, (The) Forever Dream
The Virginia rapper’s guest-filled latest is a stellar collection of bright, diverse, and downright gorgeous hip-hop that’s so light-on-its-feet it can sometimes feel like it’s sweeping you off yours.
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