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Oscars 2026: Quiet Rivalries and Overdue Coronations
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The Band Squeeze in 2025 photographed by Dean Chalkley
Words: Dan Epstein
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Words: Sean Fennell
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Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Wilson Lee
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Photos: David Saxum
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Photo: Shervin Lainez
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Photo: Robin Laananen
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Photo: Xander Opiyo
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Morgan Nagler: Finding Specificity in the Universal
Watch Hotel Fiction Perform in Athens, Georgia for “Neighborhoods”
Watch Solya Perform in Buffalo Gap, Texas for “Neighborhoods”
Watch Vitamin String Quartet Cover Teddy Swims and Radiohead for “FLOOD Sessions”
Watch Boy Golden Perform in Winnipeg’s Whittier Park for “Neighborhoods”
Watch Mothé Perform in Los Angeles’ Boyle Heights for “Neighborhoods”
Watch Ski Team Play “Plan A” and “New BF” in Brooklyn for “FLOOD Sessions”
The first-time filmmaker discusses his personal connection to the critic’s work and why Christgau’s wife Carola may be the real star of the new doc premiering at SXSW.
Words: Mike Hilleary
Photos: Ben Wu
The Band Squeeze in 2025 photographed by Dean Chalkley
Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook discuss their new concept album about a fictional nightclub that was originally recorded as demos way back in 1974 when the duo were teens.
Words: Dan Epstein
Photos: Dean Chalkley
The songwriter and actress discusses going solo two decades into her music career and previews her new album’s single “Heartbreak City” for a “Neighborhoods” session outside the soon-to-be-demolished Taix French Restaurant in Los Angeles.
Words: Sean Fennell
Photos: Daniela Shella
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.
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Young Ha Kim
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Photo: Kelly Christine Sutton
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Photo: Bella Newman
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Photo: Robin Laananen
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Photo: Neil Krug
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Photo: Ian Buosi
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Photos: Courtesy of the Artist (Power Snatch ) / Al Nardo (This Is Lorelei)
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Photo: Pooneh Ghana
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Photo: Claire Wardlaw
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Photo: Bobby Cochran
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Cut Worms, Transmitter
Produced by Jeff Tweedy, Max Clarke’s fourth album tampers down the luster of past records, grounding aspects of the indie-folk songwriter’s music that once seemed impossibly pristine.
Kim Gordon, Play Me
Fully embracing the trashy SoundCloud-era internet aesthetic as she raps, sings, and shreds over industrial clatter, this is the sound of an artist who’s still inspired by the cutting edge at 72.
The Notwist, News From Planet Zombie
This folksy, brassy new iteration of the German trio excels at melodies that yearn and churn with melancholy—yet still manages something celebratory.
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