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Photos: Carianne Older

Lighting Design: Jesse Tam

Words: Mike Wass

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Charlotte de Witte: The Future of Techno

In our latest digital cover story, the Belgian DJ discusses the long road to her debut album, the early clubbing memories that inspired it, and the evolution of techno in the hands of a more diverse scene.

Words: Mike Wass

Photos: Carianne Older

Lighting Design: Jesse Tam
EventsLive, In Photos
Live, in Photos: Gorillaz at the Hollywood Palladium

Words: FLOOD Staff

Photos : Pooneh Ghana

Additional photos: Blair Brown

Art & Culture
Cey Adams: Power to the People

Words: Soren Baker

In Conversation
Disappearing Into the Aquatic World of Oxis

Words: Margaret Farrell

Photos: Elizabeth Miranda

Makeup: Kendell Cotta

Yaya Bey, Hamilton Leithauser, and Bartees Strange Set for Noise for Now’s My Body My Festival in DC

Words: Will Schube

Photo: Daniel Cavazos

FLOOD Sessions
Watch Vitamin String Quartet Cover Teddy Swims and Radiohead for “FLOOD Sessions”

Words: FLOOD Staff

Playlist
deathcrash’s Somersaults Influences Playlist

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photo: St.Teilo

First Listen
Paisley Fields Announces New LP, Dips Into Pop on Lead Single “parTy girl”

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photo: Bohenne Arreaux

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Criteria Return with Debut LP for Spartan Records, Share Video for Lead Single “You Maketh Me”

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photo: Audrey Hertel

The Womack Sisters Sign with Daptone, Share “You Went Away Too Long”

Words: Will Schube

Photo: Rosie Cohe

Film & TVFilm Review
In Defense of Wings: Morgan Neville’s Paul McCartney: Man on the Run

Words: A.D. Amorosi

Photo: Linda McCartney, MPL Archive LLP

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American Football Share “Bad Moons,” First Single from LP4
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The Slow Country Sign with Heist or Hit, Share New Single “Firing Line”
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Sub*T Keep Things Simple on New Single “Overcomplicate”
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Danny Golden Shares a Meditation on Addiction with “War Fever”
Jack White, Alabama Shakes, Lord Huron, and Pixies Set for Borderland Festival 2026
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Watch Boy Golden Perform in Winnipeg’s Whittier Park for “Neighborhoods”
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FLOOD Sessions

Watch Vitamin String Quartet Cover Teddy Swims and Radiohead for “FLOOD Sessions”

Neighborhoods

Watch Boy Golden Perform in Winnipeg’s Whittier Park for “Neighborhoods”

Neighborhoods

Watch Mothé Perform in Los Angeles’ Boyle Heights for “Neighborhoods”

FLOOD Sessions

Watch Ski Team Play “Plan A” and “New BF” in Brooklyn for “FLOOD Sessions”

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Watch Crisis Public Relations Perform in Brooklyn for “Neighborhoods”

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Watch Glom Perform Two Songs in Park Slope, Brooklyn for “Neighborhoods”

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Watch Ally Evenson Perform Two Songs in a Backyard in Los Angeles for “Neighborhoods”

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Digital Cover
Charlotte de Witte: The Future of Techno

In our latest digital cover story, the Belgian DJ discusses the long road to her debut album, the early clubbing memories that inspired it, and the evolution of techno in the hands of a more diverse scene.

Words: Mike Wass

Photos: Carianne Older

Lighting Design: Jesse Tam
Art & Culture
Cey Adams: Power to the People

With input from the Beastie Boys’ Ad-Rock and Run-DMC’s Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, the pioneering visual artist discusses his career from being a fixture of NYC’s downtown graffiti scene in the early 1980s to developing artwork for Def Jam’s biggest titles in the ’90s to his current high-profile brand campaigns.

Words: Soren Baker

In Conversation
Disappearing Into the Aquatic World of Oxis

The “marine electronica” songwriter discusses her recently released LP Oxis 8, making music in isolation, embracing childlike impulses, and baking matcha cookies to soften her online mystique.

Words: Margaret Farrell

Photos: Elizabeth Miranda

Makeup: Kendell Cotta

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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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Courtney Barnett Returns with Two More Creature of Habit Singles

Words: Will Schube

Photo: Lindsey Byrnes

The Strokes, Gorillaz, Pavement, Wolf Alice, Turnstile, Fontaines D.C., and More Set for Shaky Knees 2026

Words: Will Schube

Photo: Daniel Cavazos

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Mikaela Davis Announces Star-Studded LP, Shares Lead Single feat. Madison Cunningham and Tim Heidecker

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photo: Bobbi Rich

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RY-GUY Pays Homage to Sam Cooke with New Single “Change Is Gonna Come”

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photo: Tom Walker

Bon Iver Announces Volumes Archival Series, Shares Live Version of “Heavenly Father”

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photo: Graham Tolbert

Essay
The Protest Song of the Elder Statesman: On Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Minneapolis” and U2’s “American Obituary”

Words: A.D. Amorosi

Film & TVFilm + TV EssayIn Memoriam
Don’t Call Tom Noonan a Monster

Words: Greg Cwik

First Listen
Guided by Voices’ Doug Gillard Invites Us on His Commute in Video for New Track “Face of Smiles”

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photo: LestudioNYC

First Listen
Temples Get Physical on Hypnotic New Single “Jet Stream Heart”

Words: FLOOD Staff

Photo: Jimmy Fontaine

Ratboys Are Singin’ to Bigger Rooms

Words: Kurt Orzeck

Photos: Miles Kalchik

Foo Fighters Announce New LP Your Favorite Toy, Share Title Track

Words: Will Schube

Photo: Elizabeth Miranda

Rostam Releases the Original Version of Vampire Weekend’s “Campus”

Words: Will Schube

Photo: Nick Delisi

Film + TV News
Fontaines D.C.’s Grian Chatten Shares New Song From Peaky Blinders Film Soundtrack

Words: Will Schube

Photo: Eimear Lynch

Reviews See All

Gorillaz, The Mountain

Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s guest-packed ninth album is a different kind of Gorillaz record—frequently interior, occasionally existential, surprisingly heartfelt.

GENA, The Pleasure Is Yours

Karriem Riggins and Liv.e’s collaborative debut beautifully plays to both of their strengths, resulting in a colorful and delightfully laid-back collection of neo-soul and jazz-rap.

Iron & Wine, Hen’s Teeth

A heavier fraternal twin to 2024’s Light Verse, Sam Beam’s unlikely eighth album hums through the speakers like a quiet, sudden revelation.
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