The influential metal and hardcore band’s leader discusses hitting a singularly raw nerve on their eleventh LP—this time with some potent socio-political reflections thrown into the mix.
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Converge’s Jacob Bannon on the Realism and Vulnerability of Love Is Not Enough
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Additional Photos: Kenn Box and Daniel Cavazos
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Watch Crisis Public Relations Perform in Brooklyn for “Neighborhoods”
Watch Glom Perform Two Songs in Park Slope, Brooklyn for “Neighborhoods”
Watch Ally Evenson Perform Two Songs in a Backyard in Los Angeles for “Neighborhoods”
Watch Small Shake Perform in LA’s Elysian Park for “Neighborhoods”
Watch Tony DV Perform Along the LA River for “Neighborhoods”
Watch SNACKTIME Perform in Sunny Philadelphia for “Neighborhoods”
Watch Whitney Whitney Perform in Downtown LA’s Arts District for “Neighborhoods”
The influential metal and hardcore band’s leader discusses hitting a singularly raw nerve on their eleventh LP—this time with some potent socio-political reflections thrown into the mix.
Words: Tom Morgan
Photo: Jason Zucco
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
Sitka songwriter Nicholas Galanin talks honoring his cultural and musical lineage on his second LP for Sub Pop, Stand on My Shoulders.
Words: Will Schube
Photos: Nick Walker
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.
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Eleanor Petry
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Photo: Courtesy Music Impact Coalition
Words: Kim March
Words: Kim March
Words: Will Schube
Photo: S.Maria
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Kehlani
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Photo: Daniel Cavazos
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Words: Mike LeSuer
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Photos: MoneyShot4All
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Photo: courtesy of Domino Records
The Nude Party, Look Who’s Back
The seven-piece rockers’ latest record serves as a sonic wayback machine to a moment when rock ’n’ roll was nothing more than a good time.
Colossal Rains, Feral Sorrow
The Blacklisted offshoot’s debut album embraces the joy of hardcore while dipping into something doomier with haunting production that eschews bright and clean sounds.
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.
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