The DJ and dream-pop band leader discusses leaning into collaboration on her second album, Written Into Changes.
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Avalon Emerson Is Achieving Bigger Things with The Charm
The DJ and dream-pop band leader discusses leaning into collaboration on her second album, Written Into Changes.
Words: Matty Pywell
Photo: Lillie Eiger
In Conversation
Joe Jackson on Bringing Hope and Fury to the World
The shape-shifting songwriter discusses exploring “bicoastal Latin jazz funk rock” on his latest album, which also aims to find love and humor during hard times.
Words: Katherine Yeske Taylor
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Thundercat Is Finding the Beat in the Blur
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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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Backstage Camera Roll: Amiture’s Release Show at The Hancock
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Tomorrow Woman Invites Your Most “Concerning” Moves on the Dance Floor with “Ultrasound”
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Alabama Shakes Tease New Music Out This Friday
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Live, in Photos: FKA twigs at WAMU Theater
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The Strokes Will Return This Summer with New LP Reality Awaits
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Live, in Photos: RAYE at WAMU Theater
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Jack White Returns with Two New Singles Ahead of This Weekend’s SNL Appearance
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Ella Langley, Dandelion
The pop-country songwriter understands the human weight of the American South’s emotionally rich tableau of high-speed heartbreak and low-light bars, as demonstrated on a resilient second album.
Sugar Horse, Not a Sound in Heaven
On their cleanest-sounding record yet, the doomy Bristol band’s idea of dance music feels perfectly suitable for the turbulent year 2026 has already proven to be.
Lime Garden, Maybe Not Tonight
The cocktail of frustration, insecurity, and lust that courses through the Brighton quartet’s buzzing and adventurous second album mirrors the trajectory of an energetic night out.
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