The FLOOD 13 cover stars performed their new album The Mountain with the assistance of Sparks, Black Thought, IDLES’s Joe Talbot, Asha Puthli, and more.
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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
Ratboys Are Singin’ to Bigger Rooms
Words: Kurt Orzeck
Photos: Miles Kalchik
Jack White, Alabama Shakes, Lord Huron, and Pixies Set for Borderland Festival 2026
Words: Will Schube
Photo: DAVID JAMES SWANSON
Neighborhoods
Watch Boy Golden Perform in Winnipeg’s Whittier Park for “Neighborhoods”
Words: FLOOD Staff
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
First Listen
Mikaela Davis Announces Star-Studded LP, Shares Lead Single feat. Madison Cunningham and Tim Heidecker
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Bobbi Rich
First Listen
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
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Essay
The Protest Song of the Elder Statesman: On Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Minneapolis” and U2’s “American Obituary”
Film & TVFilm + TV EssayIn Memoriam
Don’t Call Tom Noonan a Monster
First Listen
Guided by Voices’ Doug Gillard Invites Us on His Commute in Video for New Track “Face of Smiles”
First Listen
Temples Get Physical on Hypnotic New Single “Jet Stream Heart”
Foo Fighters Announce New LP Your Favorite Toy, Share Title Track
Rostam Releases the Original Version of Vampire Weekend’s “Campus”
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”
Neighborhoods
Watch Crisis Public Relations Perform in Brooklyn for “Neighborhoods”
Neighborhoods
Watch Glom Perform Two Songs in Park Slope, Brooklyn for “Neighborhoods”
Neighborhoods
Watch Ally Evenson Perform Two Songs in a Backyard in Los Angeles for “Neighborhoods”
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Watch Small Shake Perform in LA’s Elysian Park for “Neighborhoods”
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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
Ratboys Are Singin’ to Bigger Rooms
After a tour with The Decemberists and a prominent song sync, the Chicago-based indie rockers talk dealing with more exposure upon the release of their new LP Singin’ to an Empty Chair.
Words: Kurt Orzeck
Photos: Miles Kalchik
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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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Film + TV News
Fontaines D.C.’s Grian Chatten Shares New Song From Peaky Blinders Film Soundtrack
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Eimear Lynch
Playlist
Cowboy Hunters’ Songs to Hunt Cowboys To
Words: Mike LeSuer
First Listen
Snowcuffs Combat Ambivalence with Sylvia Plath–Inspired New Single “Burst”
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: David Ritter
Film & TVFilm + TV EssayIn Memoriam
The Calm Determination of Robert Duvall
Words: Greg Cwik
U2 Usher in Ash Wednesday with New EP Days of Ash
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Anton Corbijn
Film & TVFilm + TV News
Joe Pera and Dan Licata Are Reteaming with Adult Swim for New Animated Series My Two Cars
Words: Will Schube
Photo: courtesy of WBD
Sunflower Bean’s Julia Cumming Announces Debut Solo LP, Teams Up with Edgar Wright for “My Life” Video
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Marcus Maddox
Film & TVFilm + TV Essay
Against My Better Judgment: On Being Won Over by “Wuthering Heights”
Words: Melanie Robinson
Photos: courtesy of Warner Bros.
St. Vincent, Foo Fighters, and Al Green Lead Hollywood Bowl 2026 Summer Season
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Daniel Agnello
First Listen
Ringing Break Free of Frustrating Patterns on New Single “want2want2”
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Luke Ivanovich
Neighborhoods
Watch Mothé Perform in Los Angeles’ Boyle Heights for “Neighborhoods”
Words: FLOOD Staff
Film & TV
CHVRCHES Share Cover of The Postal Service’s “Such Great Heights”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Elliot Hazel
Lana Del Rey Recruits Her Family on New Single “White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter”
Words: Will Schube
Photo Courtesy of: Interscope Capitol
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Peaches, No Lube So Rude
Still stationed at the politicized meeting place of sexuality, queer iconography, feminism, and funk, there’s something sleekly hyperpop about the artist’s first album in over a decade.
Choker, Heaven Ain’t Sold
The crooning alt-R&B figure’s third album compresses you like a weighted blanket under its emotional stories of grief and loss distilled over seven years.
The Beach Boys, We Gotta Groove: The Brother Studio Years [Super Deluxe Edition]
Focusing on the band’s mid-’70s run (and its outtakes), this package is among the oddest, most experimental, and most fulfilling in Beach Boys box history.
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