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.
Madonna, Confessions II
Reteaming with producer Stuart Price for a sequel to her 2005 nu-disco LP, the pop star capitalizes on the velvet cordiality of her vocals with a sparkling new brand of arrangements.
Smirk, Speculative Fiction
On his most purposeful and driven release yet, Nick Vicario teams up with members of Hotline TNT, Poison Ruin, and Ceremony for a mid-tempo homage to ’80s horror-punk.
Pixies, Complete B-Sides 1988-97 [Reissue]
Neatly charting the band’s evolution from noise militants to pop eccentrics, the first-ever vinyl release of this collection reminds us that Pixies’ trash was often purer than their peers’ gold.
A.D. Amorosi
Packaging a set from their Minnesota hometown with reams of added live tracks from that same championship season, this collection sees the trio’s past and present melt into one new reality of stinging melodicism.
Further exploring keening EDM and wobbly house music, the newly drug-free rapper still insists that the low-lit dance floors be filled, and that the sweaty energy be high and mighty.
Recorded on the 10th anniversary of their debut, the trio forgoes reliving past glories in favor of quietly ruminating on what’s gone on between these two points, detonating everything in sight.
This six-disc collection expands upon the aggression, industrialism, and pernicious lyrics of the duo’s 1983 LP—a revenge, of sorts, on becoming pin-up darlings of the British new wave.
The alt-R&B star’s fifth album embraces existential lyrical concepts to match its dusky jazz-electro sound, industrial ambience, and grouchy fuzzed guitars.
With the oft-rumored electric version of Bruce’s unhappiest album as its centerpiece, this five-disc collection helps to inform the maudlin medicine that fills the songwriter’s new biopic.
Evan Dando finds a middle ground between nostalgia and the present with his grunge-pop outfit’s latest LP, which isn’t any less messily melancholic than the project’s early-’90s peak.
D’Angelo / photo by Rozette Rago
The artist who all but invented “neo-soul” passed away today at the age of 51.
The film’s creator looks back on five decades of the cult classic as it’s further immortalized with a new Ultra HD Blu-ray release and a book of Mick Rock’s behind-the-scenes production photos.
Produced by Sean Ono Lennon, this nine-CD, three-Blu-ray set ties together his parents’ raw, grimy Some Time in New York City LP with a pair of shows at Madison Square Garden.
With her fourth album of punky and provocative raps, the Nuyorican artist is once again reimagining hip-hop as a dangerous place to be.
Coming off a set of North American tour dates with a finale at Riot Fest, the co-founder of the Celtic-rock icons faces down 40 years of Rum Sodomy & the Lash with a smile.
Bauhaus and Love and Rockets co-founder Daniel Ash discusses his grooving, menacing, and bold latest venture and how it represents an artist with nothing to lose.
This 37-track collection celebrates the London-born songwriter’s genius run of crisp, soulful R&B albums in the early ’70s that have gone on to inspire hip-hop production, film soundtracks, and more in the 21st century.
There’s a soft-spun sensuality to Plant’s singing as he duets with Suzi Dian on a collaborative collection of covers including spirituals, blues staples, and haunted contemporary folk.
Despite its VIP guest list, the rapper’s second album is less velvet-rope affair than down-to-earth contemplation, a pavement-to-penthouse-and-back-again journey through love and hip-hop.
Further extending the LP’s dimensions, this reissue adds a third disc of outtakes, B-sides, and demos that only serve to fortify the project’s sonic asymmetry and emotional, quixotic lyricism.
With the aid of Ghost Train Orchestra and Kid Harpoon, Byrne continues his trek across urban prairies to explore our goofball commonalities, the quirks of romance, and his own intimacies.
The London trio go out with a loud, still chic-sounding bang—their final album is a party bus filled with old friends, new pals, and fresh, glittering sounds for a proper send-off.
The Icelandic artist’s third album exposes the nerve of classicism that’s long bubbled beneath her jazzy arrangements and melodies, exploiting the broader possibilities of her voice.
