Amanda Kramer, Samantha Mathis, and Robin Tunney discuss writer/director Kramer’s surreal latest film, as well as the importance of risk-taking—and real-life human actors.
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This One’s for the Weird Girls: The Women of By Design Talk Cinematic Experimentation
Words: Melanie Robinson
Photo: Jason Al-Taan
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Join Gelli Haha This Week on a New Episode of FLOOD FM’s “Hacked”
Words: FLOOD Staff
Photo: Sophie Prettyman-Beauchamp
In Conversation
Matty Wishnow on Capturing Robert Christgau, One of the Greatest to Give a Grade, with The Last Critic
Words: Mike Hilleary
Photos: Ben Wu
portrait by Foster K. White or April and + Vista for Traditional Noise
April + VISTA Announce Debut LP Traditional Noise, Share “Standing in Place”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Foster K. White
Ozomatli to Headline LACHSApalooza in Support of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts
Words: Will Schube
Photo: courtesy of Ozomatli
First Listen
Primitive Ring Announce Self-Titled Debut, Share Lead Single “Heads Will Roll”
Words: Mike LeSuer
MUNA Have Had Enough of the VIP Lifestyle on New Single “So What”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Dean Bradshaw
Film & TVFilm Review
Undertone: A Hallucinatory Nightmare in Surround Sound
Words: Steve Horton
Photo: courtesy of A24
JAY-Z and The Roots to Headline Roots Picnic 2026
Words: Will Schube
Photo: David Iskra
Charli XCX, Lorde, The Smashing Pumpkins, The xx, and More Set for Lollapalooza 2026
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Kimberley Ross
Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien Announces Solo LP Blue Morpho, Shares Lead Single
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Steve Gullick
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Watch Lia Pappas-Kemps Perform on a Toronto Rooftop for “Neighborhoods”
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Wire Revisit “23 Years Too Late” 24 Years Later with a New Music Video
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Oscars 2026: Quiet Rivalries and Overdue Coronations
The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, Chromeo, Feist, and More Announced for Just Like Heaven 2026
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Live, in Photos: Buck Meek at Sid the Cat Auditorium
Death Cab for Cutie Announce New Album I Built You a Tower, Share Lead Single
Neighborhoods
Watch Lia Pappas-Kemps Perform on a Toronto Rooftop for “Neighborhoods”
BreakingNeighborhoods
Morgan Nagler: Finding Specificity in the Universal
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Watch Hotel Fiction Perform in Athens, Georgia for “Neighborhoods”
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Watch Solya Perform in Buffalo Gap, Texas for “Neighborhoods”
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Watch Vitamin String Quartet Cover Teddy Swims and Radiohead for “FLOOD Sessions”
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Watch Boy Golden Perform in Winnipeg’s Whittier Park for “Neighborhoods”
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Watch Mothé Perform in Los Angeles’ Boyle Heights for “Neighborhoods”
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Film & TV
This One’s for the Weird Girls: The Women of By Design Talk Cinematic Experimentation
Amanda Kramer, Samantha Mathis, and Robin Tunney discuss writer/director Kramer’s surreal latest film, as well as the importance of risk-taking—and real-life human actors.
Words: Melanie Robinson
Photo: Jason Al-Taan
In Conversation
Matty Wishnow on Capturing Robert Christgau, One of the Greatest to Give a Grade, with The Last Critic
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
In Conversation
Squeeze: Welcome to Trixies
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
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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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Imaad Wasif Was Inspired by Sonic Youth and East Indian Classical Music on “We Are Hunters”
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Robin Laananen
Track by Track
Anjimile Breaks Down His Ecstatic New LP You’re Free to Go
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Xander Opiyo
First Listen
Paul Bergmann Ponders the Mythos of the American West on New Single “Blue Light Cowboy”
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: courtesy of the artist
Beabadoobee Returns with New Single “All I Did Was Dream of You” Featuring The Marías
Words: Will Schube
Photo: AboveGround
Bruce Springsteen Shares “A Rainy Night in Soho” Ahead of Shane MacGowan Tribute Album
Words: Will Schube
Broken Social Scene Share “Hey Amanda” Ahead of New LP Remember the Humans
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Kevin Drew
Photo layout: Jordan Allen
The Band Squeeze in 2025 photographed by Dean Chalkley
In Conversation
Squeeze: Welcome to Trixies
Words: Dan Epstein
Photos: Dean Chalkley
First Listen
Sunnan Channel the Spirit of Bergman on New Single “Longing to Miss You”
Words: Mike LeSuer
First Listen
Pope Reflect on Grief and Communal Support on “Make You Feel”
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Izze Thompson
The Lemon Twigs Announce Look for Your Mind! LP, Share First Single “I Just Can’t Get Over Losing You”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Eva Chambers
Playlist
Cut Copy’s Pre-CRSSD Festival Dance Playlist
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Young Ha Kim
Perfect Day
Perfect Day in Tamanrasset: Tinariwen
Words: FLOOD Staff
Kacey Musgraves Announces Sixth LP Middle of Nowhere, Shares “Dry Spell”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Kelly Christine Sutton
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Various artists, Red Xerox: Chicago Youth Beat 2020-2025
Spotlighting the diversity of Chicago’s underground scene, this comp is as much a symposium for genre-defying trailblazers as it is a no-skips playlists capturing the city’s budding youth-beat movement.
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.
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