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.
Kelsey Lu, So Help Me God
On their second LP, Lu taps Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman to co-produce a fascinating tapestry of pop, R&B, electronica, classical, folk, and everything avant-garde in between.
Genghis Tron, Signal Fire
The cacophony of ideas on display on the transhumanist metal band’s dystopian fourth album reflects the relentless, manic digi-present we find ourselves in today.
Vince Staples, Cry Baby
On his first release away from Def Jam, the emcee spends more time looking outward than inward, peering into a communal politic with more rock to his roll than ever before.
A.D. Amorosi
The French electronic music duo welcomes you aboard their alien undertaking.
If Iggy Pop hasn’t been free this whole time, who the fuck has?
A cool, cutting chronicler of all things California.
The folk-punk trio’s tenth album is their freest and most existential yet.
On her seventh record, the pop star has gone from playing the victim to taking full responsibility.
The artist born Matthew Urango is a multi-instrumentalist whose punk-rock youth led to his making spaced-out, modern disco.
Indefinable, refined, and weirdly universal.
The late manager of Neil Young and Joni Mitchell went deep with his artists.
Scorsese’s Netflix doc and the newly released live recordings highlight a mythic chapter in Dylanology.
From “Hee Haw” to heavy metal to rock ‘n’ roll, Shooter has it covered.
Springsteen has fused his Asbury Park roots with his rambling man esprit, and brought the whole family out to the Hills of Beverly.
This is Vampire Weekend’s “White Album”—all its baroque catchiness and experimentation in one not-so-neat double LP package.
L7 / photo by Daniel Cavazos
On the occasion of the LA punks’ first record in twenty years, Sparks explains why getting the band back together—and pissing in hats—is necessary.
December 1, 2018. Saxapahaw, North Carolina
Promo photos of The Mountain Goats ahead of their new album “Dragons”
The core of TMG talks his upcoming album for Merge and his podcast that’s now in its second season.
Helado Negro’s This Is How You Smile drops March 8 on RVNG Int
The Latinx indie musician talks us through his new album “This Is How You Smile,” out this week via RVNG Intl.
Armed with his Farfisa, his torrid voice, and his Technicolor arrangements, Condon has made his most adult listening effort to date.
Buzzcocks’ first two records with Pete Shelley proved that the band could—and did—maintain dramatic and thematic tension through entire song cycles.
The Northern Irish singer-songwriter and instrumentalist may be the twentieth century’s most fascinating interpreter of other composers’ vocal music.
If not for the fissure amongst the Beatles’ ranks, the lustrous brilliance and weird experimentalism of this collection wouldn’t shine so bright fifty years later.
Modern art music’s greatest crooner still sounds full-bloodedly theatrical and possessed of endless sensuality.
