The self-proclaimed “photographer trapped in a rock band” reflects on her new memoir and photo book documenting her years playing bass in Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins.
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Melissa Auf der Maur Is Regaining Her Creative Flow
Words: Steve Appleford
Photo: Norman Jean Roy
Additional Photos: Melissa Auf der Maur
Kelcey Ayer Shares New Single Inspired by Portishead, Boards of Canada, and The Verve
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Emily Nava
Camp Flog Gnaw Announces Set Times for This Weekend
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Wilson Lee
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Perfect Day in Whitby, Ontario: Chastity
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Photo: Alex Clarke
Silversun Pickups Announce 2027 North American Tour Dates
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Photo: Skylar Watkins
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Kalia Vandever and Dave Harrington Get Improvisational on Droning New Cut “Framed Glass Vase”
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Spencer Zahn
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Nick Cave Announces Intimate 2027 Solo Performance and Speaking Tour
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Kevin Allen
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Chastity Belt Break Down Each Track on Their Latest Statement of Friendship
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Jena Feldman
Aimee Mann, Sarah Silverman, and Roy Choi Team Up for Evening Supporting War Child
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Kevin Allen
MUNA Recruit Avalon Emerson, Romy, Arlo Parks, and Porches for Dancing on the Wall Deluxe Edition
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Photo: Dean Bradshaw
Cage the Elephant Announce Dying in Reverse LP, Share New Single “Make It Easy”
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Club Kid: A Coming-of-Age and Coming-to-Grips Tale
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BEL Envisions a Life More Ordinary on New Single “American Dream”
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The Durutti Column Recruit Four Tet for “Your Shadow at Morning” Remix
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Melissa Auf der Maur Is Regaining Her Creative Flow
The self-proclaimed “photographer trapped in a rock band” reflects on her new memoir and photo book documenting her years playing bass in Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins.
Words: Steve Appleford
Photo: Norman Jean Roy
Additional Photos: Melissa Auf der Maur
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June McDoom Wants to Get You Into Weirder Music
The NYC-via-South-Florida songwriter discusses her genre-hopping debut for Jagjaguwar, Follow the Light, and how it was born from a struggle to fit in.
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Ryley Paskal
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Blondshell Is Letting Her Hair Down
In our latest digital cover story, Sabrina Teitelbaum discusses how she’s developed a sense of artistic agency that’s allowed her to draw closer to her intended sound on her third album, Violins.
Words: Erica Russell
Photos: Ebru Yildiz
Photo Assistant: Pelin Kılıç
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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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Christine and the Queens Shares New Bilingual Single “Rendez vous avec toi”/“Rendez-vous in Your Arms”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Errol Rainey
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Heathers’ Awesome Influences Playlist
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Caroline Safran
5 Questions
5 Questions with Tove Styrke
Words: Mischa Pearlman
Photo: Frida Marklund
Watch The Womack Sisters Perform “I Am Your Season” For COLORS
Words: Will Schube
Photo: courtesy of COLORS
Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul Announce Mainland Madinina LP, Share “From Healer to Dealer”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Paul Kooiker
Neighborhoods
Watch Josh Rouse Perform Two Songs in Hendersonville, Tennessee for “Neighborhoods”
Words: FLOOD Staff
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Naked Raygun Share “Vanilla Blue” Ahead of New Live LP Documenting Their 2006 Reunion
Words: Mischa Pearlman
Photo: Mike Vinikour
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Underworld’s Pre-Brookside at the Rose Bowl Playlist
Words: Randy Bookasta
Photo: Millie Caldon
Pixies Bring Four Rare Tracks to Streaming, Including Steve Albini Version of “Dig for Fire”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Renaud Monfourny
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Live, in Photos: Nice as Fuck at Theatre of Living Arts
Words: FLOOD Staff
Photos: David Iskra
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Backstage Camera Roll: Stones Throw 30 Festival
Words: FLOOD Staff
Photos: Stones Throw Staff
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Elke Breaks Down Her Homesick New LP Big Mike Track by Track
Words: FLOOD Staff
Photo: Maria Torres
Phoebe Bridgers Brings “Phoebeween” Pop-Up Shops to LA
Words: Will Schube
Photos: Courtsey @sourcebridgers
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Fat Dog, Cancel Me (I’m Tired)
Still in their puppy years, the London dance-punk experimentalists’ second LP reflects our world at a time when chaos reigns and no one seems to be bothering to snap a leash onto its collar.
Bob Dylan, The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1976 Live Recordings
Capturing 22 different shows on the titular mid-’70s tour, each torrid, angst-ridden live take on this 39-disc collection sounds more manically driven than the gig before it.
Caspian, Caspian
On their self-titled sixth album, the shapeshifting Massachusetts post-rock outfit reminds us of their true identity as storytellers of epic songs without words.
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