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.
Dry Cleaning, Secret Love
With the help of producer Cate Le Bon, the South London quartet’s third album sands down their jagged post-punk edges into smooth, surreal pebbles of magical realism.
Various artists, Passages: Artists in Solidarity with Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers
These unheard tracks from Dirty Projectors, Daniel Lopatin, and more are hushed and raw, all crafted with the idea of evoking a sense of home to highlight those whose own are at risk.
HEALTH, Conflict DLC
The noise-rockers’ sixth LP is a full-on rush of nihilistic energy, a shattered disco ball serving as the perfect encapsulation of a world decimated by capitalistic greed at the expense of humanity.
A.D. Amorosi
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis photographed by Charlie Gray.
The New Zealand–born filmmaker’s new concert film hits theaters tomorrow.
In the final quarter of the first season of HBO’s sporting dramedy, we look at one of its central players.
These three all-rarities packages from the Birmingham sonic-collage duo create a cinematic experience from refurbished unused material.
25 titles to keep an eye out for at your local indie record shop this Saturday.
Compiling and curating rarities, and putting them next to newly remastered, raw-knuckled classics, this box set takes the form of something frank and fresh rather than merely ruminative.
The “outlaw cowboy” brings to his game the opulence of a big label with an explosive, evocative production tone crossing Spaghetti Western plains and a mountain range’s open skies.
In contrast with his most incisive work with The White Stripes and The Raconteurs, the first of White’s two planned solo albums in 2022 feels based on the ideas of a man who’s lost without equity and union.
Josh Tillman’s latest release is a record so layered, lush, calming, and dulcet that you hardly notice its frequent aimlessness.
Hunter and his Six are unafraid of dashing their smooth soul with the good grit of the blues and a live-in-studio recording vibe.
This collection of previously unreleased Fillmore East showcases and bonus tracks is the wired, weird epic you didn’t know you needed.
This collection of instrumental-only recordings from the band’s final decade together sounds freer than anything in their avant-punk and post-no-wave past.
The job of this freshly remodeled package is to heighten the stellar, grungy-but-clean studio mix given to the original sessions by Tony Clark and Alan Parsons.
RZA pens a rapier-fast love letter to his heart’s obsession while giving Scratch space to run his jazz.
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.
