As the hip-hop duo wraps up their summer festival circuit at Riot Fest, they reflect on their last album, Hyperyouth, and its call to get listeners onto the dance floor.
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As the hip-hop duo wraps up their summer festival circuit at Riot Fest, they reflect on their last album, Hyperyouth, and its call to get listeners onto the dance floor.
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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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