The West Texas songwriter shares how the loneliness of her upbringing within the state’s conservative traditions helped her find catharsis with her debut album Queen of Texas.
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The Inclusive Queendom of Solya
Words: Will Schube
Photos: Alice Baxley
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Silversun Pickups and Butch Vig Are Putting Each Other at Ease
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Location: Sid the Cat Auditorium
Suki Waterhouse Is Back (and Back in Love) with New Single
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23 Songs That Have Been Jammed in ADULT.’s Heads for Quite a While
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Charlotte Cornfield Discusses the Pain and Healing Behind Her New LP Hurts Like Hell
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Clipse, David Byrne, and Addison Rae Added to Roskilde 2026 Lineup
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Paul McCartney Readies New Album The Boys of Dungeon Lane
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Backstage Camera Roll: Bricknasty @ SXSW
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Watch Snail Mail Debut New Single “Tractor Beam” on The Tonight Show
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Aja Monet Announces The Color of Rain LP, Shares Sly Stone Dedication “Elsewhere”
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Johanna Samuels Recalls Her First Panic Attack on New Single Featuring Courtney Marie Andrews
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Shakey Graves Excavates a Prehistoric Texan Landscape on New Instrumental Cut “I Once Was an Ocean”
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The Inclusive Queendom of Solya
The West Texas songwriter shares how the loneliness of her upbringing within the state’s conservative traditions helped her find catharsis with her debut album Queen of Texas.
Words: Will Schube
Photos: Alice Baxley
Digital Cover
Silversun Pickups and Butch Vig Are Putting Each Other at Ease
In our latest digital cover story, Brian Aubert and producer/Garbage drummer Vig discuss their strong chemistry on SSPU’s latest album, Tenterhooks, at a recent Q&A event hosted by FLOOD.
Words: Lyndsey Parker
Photos: Skylar Watkins
Location: Sid the Cat Auditorium
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Angine de Poitrine Put the “Big” in Ambiguous
After their KEXP session went viral, the anonymous and daringly dissonant duo discusses their upcoming LP Vol. II and finding joy in grooving.
Words: A.D. Amorosi
Photos: Constantin Monfilliette
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13
The Tenth Anniversay Issue
Celebrate our tenth anniversary with the biggest issue we’ve ever made. FLOOD 13 is deluxe, 252-page commemorative edition—a collectible, coffee-table-style volume in a 12″ x 12″ format—packed with dynamic graphic design, stunning photography and artwork, and dozens of amazing artists representing the past, present, and future of FLOOD’s editorial spectrum, while also looking back at key moments and events in our history. Inside, you’ll find in-depth cover stories on Gorillaz and Magdalena Bay, plus interviews with Mac DeMarco, Lord Huron, Wolf Alice, Norman Reedus, The Zombies, Nation of Language, Bootsy Collins, Fred Armisen, Jazz Is Dead, Automatic, Rocket, and many more.
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Jim Legxacy Reveals He Still Has Questions on New Single “idk idk”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Jan Squeezy
Future Islands Celebrate 20th Anniversary with New Collection From a Hole in the Floor to a Fountain of Youth
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Shawn Brackbill
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Watch The Goldberg Sisters (a.k.a. Adam Goldberg) Perform in Hudson Valley for “Neighborhoods”
Words: FLOOD Staff
The Strokes and Mumford & Sons to Headline Sea.Hear.Now 2026
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Daniel Cavazos
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Alela Diane Struggles to Stay Present on New Single “In My Own Time”
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Camille Bruya
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Guided by Voices Share a Song for Robert Pollard’s Son (or Any Other Young Person, Really) with “Advance Without Dropping”
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Matt Davis
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Live, in Photos: SXSW 2026
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Photos: Daniel Cavazos and Kenn Box
Downtown Boys Return with Rowdy New Single “No Me Jodas,” Announce First LP in Nearly a Decade
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Naomi Yang
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Andrew Jim Gannon Shares Xiu Xiu Remix of “Bon Boys Will Break Your Heart” Ahead of New LP
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Tom Trevatt
U.S. Girls Share Video for “You’ve Got Everything – But a Smile” From Meg Remy’s Debut Film Score
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: courtesy of the artist
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5 Questions with The Sophs
Words: Mischa Pearlman
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Girl Scout Walk Us Through Their Cohesive Debut Statement Brink Track by Track
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Watch Tom Waits in the Trailer for Martin McDonagh’s New Film Wild Horse Nine
Words: Will Schube
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Robyn, Sexistential
The Stockholm-based electropop auteur’s ode to motherhood falls right in line with her always-mature, somewhat-confrontational manner of making desire-driven dance pop.
Holy Fuck, Event Beat
The Canadian band’s sixth collection of percussion-driven, electronically augmented art-rock walks a fascinating tightrope between hard-hitting noise and grooving synth-funk.
Dälek, Brilliance of a Falling Moon
Just as the industrial hip-hop stalwarts have never been tourists within the genre, Will Brooks’ lyrical focus on class war and normalized tragedy remains steadfast on the project’s tenth LP.
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