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.
This Is Lorelei, Holo Boy
Water From Your Eyes’ Nate Amos digs into his back catalog of nearly 70 releases shared over the last 12 years, revealing his humble beginnings and the seeds of last year’s breakout LP.
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here 50
This box set repackages the languid yet damaged follow-up to the band’s breakout success, with its true star being the massive-sounding bootleg of a 1975 live show at LA’s Sports Arena.
Blur, The Great Escape [30th Anniversary Edition]
Packed with era-appropriate B-sides, this release celebrates the Britpop quartet in their last gasp of opulent orchestration as they moved into lonely disillusionment and reserved distance.
A.D. Amorosi
The Doors guitarist discusses his new autobiography, his band’s Hollywood Bowl concert film, the 50th anniversary of their last studio album with Jim Morrison, and life in “fantastic LA.”
Glasper’s most vocal excursion to date features so many voices that there’s hardly room for his bracing instrumental work.
Origin Story captures the raucous fun of two kids feeling their way through their guitars and their words while guessing at their silly talents to come.
Dogg’s 808s & Heartbreak–inspired soul is characterized by steeliness, a live-band feel, and the past’s traditions of oversexed bravura.
On her first album in a decade, Mitchell lets the delights of vocal harmony and opulent melody with a raw, silken edge shine through.
Mark Oliver Everett is, as always, glad to be unhappy with this spare and soul-strewn 14th LP.
These two volumes of early-’70s gospel recordings capture a moment that was fresh and funky for young churchgoing crowds in the South.
(L-R): Steven Krueger as Ben Scott, Samantha Hanratty as Teen Misty, Jasmin Savoy Brown as Teen Taissa, Sophie Nélisse as Teen Shauna, Ella Purnell as Teen Jackie and Sophie Thatcher as Teen Natalie in YELLOWJACKETS. Photo credit: Brendan Meadows/SHOWTIME.
Listening in on the pair who’ve made the freakiest soundtrack on television with ’90s indie-rock touches.
The late, legendary stand-up comic and actor with a flair for all things blue, had a thing for music.
So much of the record is of a sneery, stabby nature and blunter than Costello’s more sophisticated recent songcraft.
10 LP packages that kept our eyes and ears busy over the past year.
Bored Ape Yacht Club #9797—a.k.a. Jimbo—on becoming the first NFT to make and release its own music video with the electro-shock-trap-hop of “Delist your ape (2DaMoon).”
The Brooklyn collective have never sounded more sure-footed and effortlessly melodic than they do with this gathering of friends.
Both recent live albums see the songwriter reinventing his and others’ songs with care, invention, and consideration.
Kim Gordon and Bill Nace continue along their improvised music path with the help of fellow avant-garde journeyperson Aaron Dilloway.
Bowie collaborator Mark Plati details the new box set “Brilliant Adventure,” which includes the long-lost LP “Toy” recorded in 2000 among other curios from the preceding decade.
On the pair’s first full-album collaboration, spaced-out ambience and abstract linguistics come together for something unique, brutal, and beautiful.
Kacey Musgraves
With Adele contributing “30” to the canon, here are a dozen other albums that poetically and coarsely tackle legal uncoupling.
Both new releases happily and uniquely go further into defining the myth and the magic of Brian Wilson.
28 new releases we’re excited for during this year’s post-Thanksgiving RSD Drop in November.
