Euan Manning shares how the Irish rockers balanced vulnerable autobiography and total fiction on their debut album Masquerade.
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Cardinals’ Emotional Journey Through Cork and Beyond
Euan Manning shares how the Irish rockers balanced vulnerable autobiography and total fiction on their debut album Masquerade.
Words: Matty Pywell
Photos: Steve Gullick
Additional Photos: Kenn Box and Daniel Cavazos
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Sitka songwriter Nicholas Galanin talks honoring his cultural and musical lineage on his second LP for Sub Pop, Stand on My Shoulders.
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The producers introduce a first look at the documentary short Unknown Pop Wizard, which commemorates the legacy of the songwriter whose posthumous debut album 65th & York arrived back in October.
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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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AURORA and The Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands Announce Debut as TOMORA, Share Title Track
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Sorry Share Two New Tracks, “Billy Elliot” and “Alone in Cologne”
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Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Laughter in Summer
The emotional new collection from the 82-year-old composer/vocalist is full of sedative new-age sounds and smartly executed art-pop that skews toward the pastoral and elegiac.
MØL, Dreamcrush
The Danish group hones their tantalizing blend of shoegaze and black metal on their third album, balancing heartfelt passages suitable for airplay with all-out assaults.
Silversun Pickups, Tenterhooks
Largely eschewing the distortion-doused approach of their early material, the dreamy LA rockers’ seventh record is a cohesive body of work rather than a gumball machine for singles.
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