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.
Depeche Mode, Memento Mori: Mexico City
The live album tied to the new-wave icons’ new concert film shows how a lifelong band persists through loss while maturing their dusky music and a deep connection to their audience.
Prince & The Revolution, Around the World in a Day [40th Anniversary Edition]
Besides its crystal-clear sound, the draw for this expanded singles collection is its curios such as the 22-minute “America” and Prince’s serpentine contribution to the We Are the World album.
La Luz, Extra! Extra!
Reworking tracks from 2024’s News of the Universe LP, Shana Cleveland emphasizes themes of change, non-determinism, and acceptance on an EP that aptly feels a little lonely.
A.D. Amorosi
With her 2001 disco single going viral after soundtracking the bold finale to Saltburn, the songwriter explains how this newfound attention precedes a return to a love of dance music.
Backed with liner notes from Tim Kinsella, this career-spanning comp unites the project’s three studio albums of ragingly ornamented and searingly rarified post-punk with previously unissued tracks.
The member of the terminally cheerful Kids in the Hall comedy troupe talks venting his frustrations with Amazon’s censorship of the series’ revival with a new solo comedy show.
The Wire frontman’s 1997 turn toward drum ’n’ bass, techno, house, and industrial music is guided by the goal of atmospheric mood-shifting and a love story just beginning to build.
Balancing his Entergalactic OST’s wobbly clouds of synth with the banger hooks he’s known for, Cudi’s lengthy ninth LP has too many guests sounding as if they’re squeezing to get in.
The second installment in Light in the Attic’s archive series on Reed spotlights his devotional ambient-drone LP—the pensive yin to its infamous successor’s metallic yang.
Our roundup of the anniversary releases, box sets, and other collections that stood out last year.
The debut collaboration between the Buffalo emcee and the German trap producer is a darkly clouded, overstuffed release that eats like a huge holiday meal after a maudlin family funeral.
In collecting 57 solo and duo efforts into one (not really) cohesive whole, a multi-hued portrait of the Mars Volta/At the Drive-In cofounder as an enigmatic genius emerges.
With contributions from Iggy Pop, Cat Power, Lydia Lunch, Peaches, Shirley Manson, and more, the covers collection aims to benefit its subject as she recovers from long COVID.
With friends of the Moldy Peaches co-founder reverently recreating his solo hits, this new compilation occasionally makes us more interested in what some of his peers have been up to.
The broadly poetic tales of ordinary madness on the Genesis co-founder’s first LP of new original material in over two decades are often spare and daringly melodic.
Remembering the Pogues frontman upon his passing at the age of 65.
The multimedia installation artist discusses his work for the new group show Smoke and Mirrors: Magical Thinking in Contemporary Art taking place at Florida’s Boca Raton Museum of Art through May 12.
With a crisper mix and an expanded tracklist, these live recordings that were once overwrought and overly complex become more bearable—and occasionally effortlessly beautiful.
Q4’s moody sister to the annual April celebration of all-things-physical-music-media arrives on November 24.
The anime giant discusses his new exhibit at NYC’s NowHere where he shares the design work for which he’s renowned and other, more personal and experimental projects.
Packaging together the first six LPs released by the organist-fronted ensemble, this box set reminds us that their funky take on space jazz is otherworldly—for its time, as well as for the present day.
The highlight of this re-release is the inclusion of the former Roxy Music vocalist’s sleekly tasteful lost album Horoscope and a collection of raw, rare session sketches.
On his third album, the jazz-pop songwriter slows his lush, quirky sonic environment’s roll as he expands his lyrical focus to paint a more complex portrait of his social identity.
