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Backstage Camera Roll
Backstage Camera Roll: Wednesday at Coachella 2026
Words: FLOOD Staff
Backstage Camera Roll
Backstage Camera Roll: Metric at Xanadu Roller Arts
Words: FLOOD Staff
Photos: Kimberley Ross
Film & TV
Bowie, Henson, and the 40th Anniversary of Labyrinth: A Mini Oral History
Words: Steve Horton
Photo: courtesy of The Jim Henson Company
In Conversation
Julia Cumming Is Discovering Who She Is
Words: Maia Raymer
Photos: Daniela Shella
Location: Sid the Cat Auditorium
Hayley Williams, Mitski, Lola Young, and More Announced for All Things Go DC 2026
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Skylar Watkins
Art & Culture
Cassandra Jenkins Talks Mental Health in Exclusive Excerpt from New Book Sound Minds
Words: FLOOD Staff
Photo: Kimberley Ross
First Listen
La Sécurité Clean Up Their Lives in Video for New Single “Deny”
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Kristin Sollecito
Non-Musical Influences
5 Non-Musical Influences on Lip Critic’s Chaotic New LP Theft World
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Justin Pietropaol
Karen O, Beck, Britt Daniel, and More Will Pay Tribute to the Films of Wes Anderson This Summer at the Hollywood Bowl
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Skylar Watkins
FLOOD Sessions
Watch Yot Club Play “Make It Easy” and “Bones” in Los Angeles for “FLOOD Sessions”
Words: FLOOD Staff
Olivia Rodrigo Announces 65-Date “Unravelled Tour,” Taps Die Spitz, Wolf Alice, and More to Open
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Dutch Doscher
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JPEGMAFIA Announces New Album Experimental Rap, Shares Its First Experimental Rap Single
First Listen
Fai Laci Strive to Make a Positive Impact with “Headlights”
Stream Easy Honey’s Peak-Summiting New Plaid EP
“Outsiders, Outcasts, Rebels + Weirdos: Punk Culture 1976–86” Exhibit to Open at Skirball Center
Kacey Musgraves Announces Fall North American Tour, Mariachi Brothers Set to Join for Texas Gigs
Finn Wolfhard Announces New LP Fire From the Hip, Releases “I’ll Let You Finish”
FLOOD Sessions
Watch Yot Club Play “Make It Easy” and “Bones” in Los Angeles for “FLOOD Sessions”
Neighborhoods
Watch Wrabel Perform in Los Angeles for “Neighborhoods”
Neighborhoods
Watch Wilby Perform on a Brooklyn Rooftop for “Neighborhoods”
Neighborhoods
Watch Rachel Lime Perform on a Greenpoint Rooftop for “Neighborhoods”
Neighborhoods
Watch Maria Taylor Perform in South Pasadena for “Neighborhoods”
FLOOD Sessions
Watch Jobi Riccio Play “Love of the Song” in Nashville for “FLOOD Sessions”
Neighborhoods
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Watch The Strumbellas Perform in Medford, Oregon for “Neighborhoods”
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Backstage Camera Roll
Backstage Camera Roll: Metric at Xanadu Roller Arts
The Canadian indie-electro vets celebrated the release of their 10th album Romanticize the Dive with a roller disco night in Brooklyn.
Words: FLOOD Staff
Photos: Kimberley Ross
Film & TV
Bowie, Henson, and the 40th Anniversary of Labyrinth: A Mini Oral History
Four decades since the release of this misunderstood classic, the film’s actors, puppeteers, and musicians reflect on its legacy.
Words: Steve Horton
Photo: courtesy of The Jim Henson Company
In Conversation
Julia Cumming Is Discovering Who She Is
The Sunflower Bean leader talks her debut solo album Julia and how it was shaped by ’70s revivalism without getting lost in nostalgia.
Words: Maia Raymer
Photos: Daniela Shella
Location: Sid the Cat Auditorium
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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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First Listen
Islands’ Nick Thorburn and Ratatat’s Mike Stroud Unite as The Creem, Share “Goodbye”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Max Flick
First Listen
Zoon Turns Anger Into Positivity on New Single “I Was Younger”
Words: Mike LeSuer
EventsLive, In Photos
Live, in Photos: Gelli Haha at Schubas
Words: FLOOD Staff
Photos: MoneyShot4All
Vince Staples Announces New Album Cry Baby
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Adrian Nieto
Essay
Meme Rap: An Off-Puttingly Weird Subgenre for Our Off-Puttingly Weird Times
Words: Gerald Nesmith
Neighborhoods
Watch Wrabel Perform in Los Angeles for “Neighborhoods”
Words: FLOOD Staff
David Byrne Recruits Natalia Lafourcade and Mexican Institute of Sound for “¿Cúal es la Razón?”
Words: Will Schube
Photo Courtesy of: Grandstand Media
Boards of Canada Announce Listening Parties for New Inferno LP
Words: Will Schube
Announcing Limited Edition Mike “Battle Kat” Bauer T-Shirt and Hoodie, Now Available to Pre-Order
Words: FLOOD Staff
FLOOD FM
Join Tiga This Week on a New Episode of FLOOD FM’s “Hacked”
Words: FLOOD Staff
Photo: Qarim Brown
Breaking
April + VISTA Are Anything But Traditional
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Jada Imani M
Additional Photos: Foster K. White
Non-Musical Influences
5 Non-Musical Influences on Tempers’ Lucid New LP Delusion
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Jessica Hallock
Track by Track
Gay Meat Takes Us on an Emotional Journey Through Each Track of His Debut LP Blue Water
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Nick O’Reilly
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Failure, Location Lost
The spacey grunge trio’s fourth post-reunion LP avoids trends in favor of songs that penetrate the heart—it’s as if they’ve finally found the magic they’ve had in themselves from the start.
Kacey Musgraves, Middle of Nowhere
Awash in twang and thick pedal steel, the country star’s seventh album explores the solitary no man’s land that exists between the ending of one relationship and the beginning of another.
Kneecap, Fenian
With bigger melodies and broader synth soundscapes, the rage-rave rap trio’s second LP takes an unexpected turn inward as they continue to take the politics of the world at large to task.
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