The influential metal and hardcore band’s leader discusses hitting a singularly raw nerve on their eleventh LP—this time with some potent socio-political reflections thrown into the mix.
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In Conversation
Converge’s Jacob Bannon on the Realism and Vulnerability of Love Is Not Enough
The influential metal and hardcore band’s leader discusses hitting a singularly raw nerve on their eleventh LP—this time with some potent socio-political reflections thrown into the mix.
Words: Tom Morgan
Photo: Jason Zucco
Cardinals’ Emotional Journey Through Cork and Beyond
Euan Manning shares how the Irish rockers balanced vulnerable autobiography and total fiction on their debut album Masquerade.
Words: Matty Pywell
Photos: Steve Gullick
Additional Photos: Kenn Box and Daniel Cavazos
Breaking
Ya Tseen Is Exploring the Continuums of Genre and Ancestry
Sitka songwriter Nicholas Galanin talks honoring his cultural and musical lineage on his second LP for Sub Pop, Stand on My Shoulders.
Words: Will Schube
Photos: Nick Walker
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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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Chinese American Bear Find Themselves in a Fantasy Mindset on New Single “All the People”
Words: Mike LeSuer
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Words: Kim March
CHVRCHES Offshoot The Leaving Share Second Single, Tease Debut Live Dates
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S.Maria Shares “Honey and Salt” Ahead of New LP Monkey Jar
Words: Will Schube
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Perfume Genius Returns with “Undercurrent (Clean Heart)” From New Extended Version of Glory
Words: Mike LeSuer
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Kehlani, E-40, Souls of Mischief, and More Set to Appear at Levi’s “Home Turf” Super Bowl Pop-Up
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AURORA and The Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands Announce Debut as TOMORA, Share Title Track
Words: Mike LeSuer
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Otracami Contemplates the Employer-Employee Relationship of Persephone and the Sirens on New Single
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Tomorrow Never Knows Heats Up Chicago with Perfume Genius, DIIV, Real Estate and More
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Dua Saleh Announces New LP Of Earth & Wires, Shares Two New Singles with Bon Iver
Words: Will Schube
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Melanie Martinez Announces New Album Hades
Words: Will Schube
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Sorry Share Two New Tracks, “Billy Elliot” and “Alone in Cologne”
Words: Will Schube
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The Nude Party, Look Who’s Back
The seven-piece rockers’ latest record serves as a sonic wayback machine to a moment when rock ’n’ roll was nothing more than a good time.
Colossal Rains, Feral Sorrow
The Blacklisted offshoot’s debut album embraces the joy of hardcore while dipping into something doomier with haunting production that eschews bright and clean sounds.
Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Laughter in Summer
The emotional new collection from the 82-year-old composer/vocalist is full of sedative new-age sounds and smartly executed art-pop that skews toward the pastoral and elegiac.
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