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.
The Rolling Stones, Foreign Tongues
The Stones come as close as they ever will to reckoning with their twilight years on a surprisingly effective 25th LP that finds them bringing a fresh spark to their signature sound.
Mary in the Junkyard, Role Model Hermit
The London art-rock trio’s Robert Eggers–like debut clings to the lattice of maritime folklore while examining the often-felt pendulum between craving isolation and intimacy.
Kelela, New Avatar
The songwriter’s earliest soul and jazz influences can be found swirling throughout her third album, which also expands into the realms of hypnotic electronic music and alt rock.
A.D. Amorosi
Twenty-five years after he released one of the most controversial records in hip-hop history, the LA rapper-turned–family man has regrets—but not many.
Though short and sweet, “Ti Amo” hides something frank, hard, and troubled beneath its lustful sheen and rainbow hues.
There’s buoyancy and shockingly tight musicianship to Black Lips’ prattling-on proceedings here that you won’t often find elsewhere in the garage band’s catalog.
‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ starring Jonah Ray, Patton Oswalt, Felicia Day, Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy, Mary Jo Pehl, Hampton Yount, Baron Vaughn, Rebecca Hanson, Tim Blaney, Elliot Kalan. Directed by Joel Hodgson & Rob Cohen. Photo by Darren Michaels, SMPSP
It’s no mystery. It’s not rocket science. It only looks like it.
The oddball, acid-laced soliloquies that characterized Coyne’s Mad Hatter aesthetic from the start are still part-and-parcel of what drives his merry-to-morose ensemble.
The “Uptown Funk” star can be both trite and torrid when it comes to plastic, flossy funk.
On its fortieth anniversary, the sci-fi classic is getting a 4K re-release. Here, the earthlings involved—including cinematographer Tony Richmond and Bowie’s co-star Candy Clark—talk about the moment the star became a man.
Gleeful arts and farts from Detroit’s finest.
Justin Vernon’s latest is a gorgeous victory and a righteous revival of a talent, but does it go as far as those song titles would have you believe?
1982. Neil Young Human Highway. photo courtesy of the Devo Archives
While still riding the wave of what could possibly have been the greatest run of recorded music in rock and roll history, Neil Young decided to make a movie. And not just any movie. A movie so strange that it barely saw the light of day—until now.
He’s no astronaut, but Michael Volpe know how to scale dizzying heights.
Various Artists Day of the Dead 4AD 7/10 For its twentieth edition in a series of fund-raising various-artist projects, the…
Never before have Radiohead made anxiety such a singular concern, or unease such an agonized-over art form, as they have here.
The man behind the beats of Common and Erykah Badu goes for a robo-flow.
Undated. Lush uncredited press photo courtesy of 4AD
Recently reunited and with a new EP to prove it, Miki Berenyi and Emma Anderson harmonize together once again to talk past, future, and why they would still prefer not to be called “shoegaze,” thank you very much.
That means that every time you see skinny, wrinkly John Hurt tooling around a stolen set of diamonds, Clark’s man-machine ting and moaning musical tones can’t be far behind.
There’s no time for moans or drones on this album—just shouts and kicks.
2015. Wolf Alice shot for FLOOD 2 cred Catie Laffoon
Tracking the carnivorous rise of the London alt-rock group behind “My Love Is Cool,” one of 2015’s biggest debuts.
2016. Sia This Is Acting cover hi-res
Great songs, yes, but without Sia’s nervy verve.
2015. Archy Marshall, “A New Place 2 Drown”
Their newest collaboration finds the Londoners building upon their personal relationship and their view of the works they’ve made collectively and singularly.
