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Goodbye Cool World!, Hello Future of DIY: Bomb the Music Industry!’s Pivotal LP at 20
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Breaking
Jordan Joy Is Taking Back Control
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Phoebe Bridgers Retires Saddest Factory Records’ Name, Will Now Release Label’s Music Directly via Dead Oceans
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Vince Staples Announces North American Tour in Support of Cry Baby
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Horse Lords’ Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! Influences Playlist
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Pulp Announce Live Album and Concert Film
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Julia Jacklin Returns with 4AD Debut The Gem, Shares Lead Single
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Alex Zhang Hungtai Shares New Short Film Featuring the Closing Tracks to Both Sides of Orion/Mother
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Meltt Guide Us Through Their Transformative New LP Pathways
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Cinder Well Shares Another Stark Chamber-Folk Cut Ahead of New LP with “Beyond the Pale”
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Olivia Rodrigo Announces Immersive Experiences in LA Ahead of New Album
The Strokes Announce Fall Hometown Gig with Beach House, TV on the Radio, and Fcukers
Tank and the Bangas, Terrace Martin, Tortoise, and More Set for Summer Skirball Shows
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Perfect Day in Montreal: La Sécurité
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Goodbye Cool World!, Hello Future of DIY: Bomb the Music Industry!’s Pivotal LP at 20
Jeff Rosenstock discusses the record that birthed the industry’s first donation-based label, which remains a blueprint for do-or-die DIY two decades on.
Words: Hayden Merrick
Photos: Joelle Andres
Breaking
Jordan Joy Is Taking Back Control
The songwriter talks shifting gears from a career in social activism to the family trade of music, most recently learning to be her most honest, unguarded self with a pair of recent singles.
Words: Lily Moayeri
Photo: Brantley Gutierrez
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Playing for the Badge: When Fashion, Soccer, and Music Collide
Future Islands, Mount Kimbie, and Full Kit co-founder Robbie Laing weigh in on the recent trend of musicians making personal and political statements with merch inspired by their favorite football clubs.
Words: Matty Pywell
Photos: Adam Powell , Raphaël Gaultier, Marty Tannenbaum, Robbie Laing, and Kimberley Ross
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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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Live, in Photos: Governors Ball 2026 with A$AP Rocky, Wet Leg, Geese, and More
Words: Dutch Doscher
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Zoh Amba Breaks Down the Lyrical Themes Behind Their New Slacker-Folk LP Eyes Full
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Eleonore Hendricks
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Backstage Camera Roll: The Leaving at Gold-Diggers in Los Angeles
Words: FLOOD Staff
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Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal Announce DOOMED!, Recruit Hemlock Ernst for First Single
Words: Will Schube
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Finn Wolfhard Unveils New Single “Tunnels”
Words: Will Schube
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Sylvan Esso Return with Video for New Single “Hot Slob”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Graham Tolbert
Jack White Announces New Album Frozen Charlotte, Shares Lead Single “Dollar Bill”
Words: Will Schube
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ggwendolyn Is Feeling Afflicted in Video for New Single “Superstar Syndrome”
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Nicholas Woltersdorf
Interpol Signs with Partisan Records, Announces This Mirror Weighs a Ton LP
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Elliot Lee Hazel
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Jay-Z Announces 30th Anniversary Gigs in LA and Paris
Words: Will Schube
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Watch The Deslondes Cover Norman Smith in Laramie, Wyoming for “Neighborhoods”
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Chat Pile Announce New LP Who Loves the Sun, Share Billy Squier–Inspired Single “Deep Blue”
Words: Will Schube
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Mitski Announces 10th Anniversary Edition of Puberty 2
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Of Montreal, Aethermead
Kevin Barnes rallies something bracingly emotional on their 20th album in 30 years, sounding more crisply, contagiously, singularly psychedelic than they have in ages.
Olivia Rodrigo, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love
Teetering between the influences of ’80s new wave and ’90s alt-rock, the pop star’s third album is a journey from jubilant lovesickness to a fatalistic collapse into romantic decay.
Goose, Big Modern!
At once their most even-keeled and explosively hook-crowded album yet, the jam-grinding ensemble’s latest is a stretch toward something uniquely slick and end-timey.
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