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Digital Cover Silversun Pickups and Butch Vig Are Putting Each Other at Ease

Photos: Skylar Watkins

Location: Sid the Cat Auditorium

Words: Lyndsey Parker

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Silversun Pickups and Butch Vig Are Putting Each Other at Ease

In our latest digital cover story, Brian Aubert and producer/Garbage drummer Vig discuss their strong chemistry on SSPU’s latest album, Tenterhooks, at a recent Q&A event hosted by FLOOD.

Words: Lyndsey Parker

Photos: Skylar Watkins

Location: Sid the Cat Auditorium
EventsLive, In Photos
Live, in Photos: SXSW 2026

Words: FLOOD Staff

Photos: Daniel Cavazos and Kenn Box

Breaking
Angine de Poitrine Put the “Big” in Ambiguous

Words: A.D. Amorosi

Photos: Constantin Monfilliette

Watch Snail Mail Debut New Single “Tractor Beam” on The Tonight Show

Words: Will Schube

Photo: Daria Kobayashi Ritch

Aja Monet Announces The Color of Rain LP, Shares Sly Stone Dedication “Elsewhere”

Words: Will Schube

Photo: Daniel L Johnson

Gelli Haha Shares New Single “Klouds Will Carry Me to Sleep” Ahead of North American Tour

Words: Will Schube

Photo: Daniela Buvat

Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, and More Featured on New Comp Celebrating the Work of Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan

Words: Will Schube

Photo: Jay Blakesberg

Playlist
Ivy Knight’s Iron Mountain Influences Playlist

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photo: Sarame Sahgal

Sierra Spirit Announces New EP Rodeo Clown, Shares Title Track

Words: Will Schube

Photo: Pierce Pyrzenski

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Hannah Lew Confronts a False Love on New Single “Replica”

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photo: Ginger Fierstein

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Johanna Samuels Recalls Her First Panic Attack on New Single Featuring Courtney Marie Andrews

Words: Mike LeSuer

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Shakey Graves Excavates a Prehistoric Texan Landscape on New Instrumental Cut “I Once Was an Ocean”
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Future Islands Celebrate 20th Anniversary with New Collection From a Hole in the Floor to a Fountain of Youth
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Watch The Goldberg Sisters (a.k.a. Adam Goldberg) Perform in Hudson Valley for “Neighborhoods”
The Strokes and Mumford & Sons to Headline Sea.Hear.Now 2026
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Alela Diane Struggles to Stay Present on New Single “In My Own Time”
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Neighborhoods

Watch The Goldberg Sisters (a.k.a. Adam Goldberg) Perform in Hudson Valley for “Neighborhoods”

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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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Digital Cover
Silversun Pickups and Butch Vig Are Putting Each Other at Ease

In our latest digital cover story, Brian Aubert and producer/Garbage drummer Vig discuss their strong chemistry on SSPU’s latest album, Tenterhooks, at a recent Q&A event hosted by FLOOD.

Words: Lyndsey Parker

Photos: Skylar Watkins

Location: Sid the Cat Auditorium
Breaking
Angine de Poitrine Put the “Big” in Ambiguous

After their KEXP session went viral, the anonymous and daringly dissonant duo discusses their upcoming LP Vol. II and finding joy in grooving.

Words: A.D. Amorosi

Photos: Constantin Monfilliette

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

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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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Guided by Voices Share a Song for Robert Pollard’s Son (or Any Other Young Person, Really) with “Advance Without Dropping”

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photo: Matt Davis

Downtown Boys Return with Rowdy New Single “No Me Jodas,” Announce First LP in Nearly a Decade

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photo: Naomi Yang

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Andrew Jim Gannon Shares Xiu Xiu Remix of “Bon Boys Will Break Your Heart” Ahead of New LP

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photo: Tom Trevatt

U.S. Girls Share Video for “You’ve Got Everything – But a Smile” From Meg Remy’s Debut Film Score

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photo: courtesy of the artist

5 Questions
5 Questions with The Sophs

Words: Mischa Pearlman

Photo: Eric Daniels

Track by Track
Girl Scout Walk Us Through Their Cohesive Debut Statement Brink Track by Track

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photo: Jakob Ekvall

Watch Tom Waits in the Trailer for Martin McDonagh’s New Film Wild Horse Nine

Words: Will Schube

Photo: courtesy of ANTI- Records

Jump Source Recruit billy woods and POiSON GiRL FRiEND for New Double Single

Words: Will Schube

Photo: Kyle Berger

Film & TVFilm Review
Project Hail Mary: A Successful Compression of Space and Time

Words: Sean Fennell

Photo: courtesy of Amazon MGM

First Listen
Hear an Early Stream of John Dwyer’s New Damaged Bug LP ZUZAX

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photo: John Dwyer

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Fireball Kid Confronts Ghosts and “Sad Forest Magic” (and Weed) on New Track “At Your Leisure”

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photo: Ana-Maria Trudel

Polo & Pan Join Magdalena Bay, Fcukers, and More for Shabang Festival 2026

Words: Will Schube

Photo: Wilson Lee

Genesis Owusu Details New Album Redstar Wu & The Worldwide Scourge

Words: Will Schube

Photo: Isaac Brown

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Dälek, Brilliance of a Falling Moon

Just as the industrial hip-hop stalwarts have never been tourists within the genre, Will Brooks’ lyrical focus on class war and normalized tragedy remains steadfast on the project’s tenth LP.

Digital Underground, Sex Packets [35th Anniversary Edition]

This double LP celebrates the adventurous 1990 debut from the freaks of the industry by offering rare remixes and other unreleased tracks from the era packaged with a 3D gatefold.

Footballhead, Weight of the Truth

Shifting between post-hardcore, emo, and nu-metal, the Chicago outfit’s second LP sounds as if it could be a forgotten relic of the late-’90s—perhaps at the expense of it feeling like their own.
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