Celebrating 15 years in the game, the community-focused San Francisco music company continues to expand while maintaining their artist-first mentality.
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EMPIRE Is Playing the Long Game
Words: Tamara Palmer
Photo: Andrew Rosas
In Conversation
Sébastien Tellier’s Savage State of Mind
Words: A.D. Amorosi
Photo: Antoine Jaussaud
EventsLive, In Photos
Live, in Photos: María Zardoya’s Not for Radio at the United Theater on Broadway
Words: FLOOD Staff
Photos: Eric Tra
Breaking
Tyler Ballgame Is Singing How He Feels
Words: Will Schube
Photos: Dutch Doscher
Melanie Martinez Shares Surprise New Single “Possession”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Cho Giseok
Kneecap Return with New LP Fenian, Go After UK Prime Minister on New Single “Liars Tale”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Tom Beard
Laura Jane Grace and illuminati hotties Set to Headline Ekko Astral’s Second Annual Liberation Weekend
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Timothy Hiatt
Nation of Language Recruits W. H. Lung’s Tom Sharkett for “Inept Apollo” Remix
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Ava Blanchette
If You Live in Greenland, You Now Have Free Access to Neil Young’s Entire Catalog
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Steve Appleford
First Listen
Market Falls Down a Slide on New Single “The Visitors”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Monica Murray
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Accessory Channels a Bleak News Cycle for Somber New Single “Calcium”
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Jason Balla
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Neighborhoods
Watch Ally Evenson Perform Two Songs in a Backyard in Los Angeles for “Neighborhoods”
Philip Glass Will No Longer Be Premiering New Symphony at The Kennedy Center
Bikini Kill Announces September North American Tour
William Basinski, Portrayal of Guilt, Mizmor, and More Added to Prepare the Ground 2026
First Listen
Pretty Rude Share Live Video for New Track “Joy Buzzer” Ahead of NY Shows with Carpool
Playlist
Blackwater Holylight’s Not Here Not Gone Influences Playlist
Neighborhoods
Watch Ally Evenson Perform Two Songs in a Backyard in Los Angeles for “Neighborhoods”
Neighborhoods
Watch Small Shake Perform in LA’s Elysian Park for “Neighborhoods”
Neighborhoods
Watch Tony DV Perform Along the LA River for “Neighborhoods”
Neighborhoods
Watch SNACKTIME Perform in Sunny Philadelphia for “Neighborhoods”
Neighborhoods
Watch Whitney Whitney Perform in Downtown LA’s Arts District for “Neighborhoods”
Neighborhoods
Watch The Vices Perform in a Skatepark in Groningen, Netherlands for “Neighborhoods”
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Watch St. Panther Perform on a Rooftop in East Hollywood for “Neighborhoods”
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EMPIRE Is Playing the Long Game
Celebrating 15 years in the game, the community-focused San Francisco music company continues to expand while maintaining their artist-first mentality.
Words: Tamara Palmer
Photo: Andrew Rosas
In Conversation
Sébastien Tellier’s Savage State of Mind
The king of the French touch sound talks Kiss the Beast, his frantic new album that counters the domesticated portrait he painted on his previous release.
Words: A.D. Amorosi
Photo: Antoine Jaussaud
Breaking
Tyler Ballgame Is Singing How He Feels
The LA-via-Rhode-Island songwriter details the journey leading up to his debut album For the First Time, Again, arriving January 30 via Rough Trade.
Words: Will Schube
Photos: Dutch Doscher
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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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Spoon and The Beths Announce East Coast/Midwest Summer Co-Headlining Tour
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Michelle Shiers
Death Cab for Cutie Sign to ANTI- Records, Chart Summer Tour with Japanese Breakfast, Jay Som, and Nation of Language
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Ryan Russell
Jessie Ware Teases New Album with Loose Single “I Could Get Used to This”
Words: Mike LeSuer
Denzel Curry Preps Strictly 4 The Scythe LP, Recruits Bktherula and Lazer Dim 700 for “The Lit Effect”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Brock Fetch
War Child Announces HELP(2) Compilation with New Arctic Monkeys Single “Opening Night”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Phoebe Fox
Yttling Jazz Imagines “Gene Krupa Playing Swedish Indie” on Yukimi-Assisted “Distant Star”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Fredrik Bengtsson
Playlist
Silica Gel’s “BIG VOID” Influences Playlist
Words: Mike LeSuer
Backstage Camera Roll
Photo Diary: Bruno Furlan at Dirtybird’s Flight Week 2025
Words: FLOOD Staff
First Look
Felsmann + Tiley Reflect on Power and Loneliness with “God Is Lonelier” Video
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: courtesy of the artist
Grace Inspace Shares Ode to the Sound of Silence with “Helium Balloon”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Kate Garner
SPELLLING Teams Up with Turnstile’s Brendan Yates for New Take on “Portrait of My Heart”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Trevor Roberts
Track by Track
Cavetown (Carefully) Walks Us Through His New Album Running with Scissors
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Jaxon Whittington
Events
Tenlons Fort Is Bringing His Daniel Johnston Tribute to Pasadena’s Sid the Cat Auditorium This Week
Words: FLOOD Staff
Photo: Dick Johnston
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Joyce Manor, I Used to Go to This Bar
The Torrance punks’ seventh album sees the trio firing on all cylinders with their signature punchy hooks and catchy choruses culminating in 19 minutes of sheer pop-punk glory.
Searows, Death in the Business of Whaling
Alec Duckart’s nautically themed second album infuses its emotionally fragile indie-folk with a trudging heaviness that pushes toward doom-metal territory.
Camper, Campilation
Flush with a historic list of Black voices both past and present, the producer’s debut album sees him devise yet another way to remake the wheel of soul.
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