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.
Of Montreal, Aethermead
Kevin Barnes rallies something bracingly emotional on their 20th album in 30 years, sounding more crisply, contagiously, singularly psychedelic than they have in ages.
Olivia Rodrigo, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love
Teetering between the influences of ’80s new wave and ’90s alt-rock, the pop star’s third album is a journey from jubilant lovesickness to a fatalistic collapse into romantic decay.
Goose, Big Modern!
At once their most even-keeled and explosively hook-crowded album yet, the jam-grinding ensemble’s latest is a stretch toward something uniquely slick and end-timey.
A.D. Amorosi
He’s produced for Kanye, Beyoncé, and Geto Boys—and he finally has a record of his own.
“Good Souls Better Angels” is one of Williams’ most live-wire works.
The godfather of cannabis culture on his comic past, the smoky present, and living long through Trump and COVID-19.
“Fetch” is as cold as it is overheated, as vibrant as it is humble.
“This is a record from the heart about my reconnection to the planet, and the divine existential nature of it all.”
The reissue’s added tracks are all contextual red meat—no gristle or fat.
The ambitious rapper/producer opens up about his legacy and family.
Cellist Maya Beiser and pianist Mike Garson discuss translating the artist’s work into something new.
Though he suspects he has the virus, EOB’s record remains on track for release April 17.
This album offers up some of his best performances, wryest lyrics, and most experimental arrangements in years.
The French artist is among the most influential of the disco era, and one of dance music’s first trailblazers.
A show of unity between Texan soul makers.
The sessions that fill this box are those where Davis left flirty, speedy bebop behind for slow, hard bop.
Like the gluttonous Reagan era in which it was born, the new “1999” is explosively opulent and appropriate for the Trump moment in its excess and mess.
Jim’s son Chris and producer Al Dobbs give their thoughts on the songwriter’s disappearance and why his music lingers on.
In some ways, it’s more like Adam Cohen’s love letter to his father’s artistry than a final statement from the late poet.
Dylan revered the outlaw Cash, and Cash admired the wordsmith Dylan.
Three albums in, Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders feels like a vacation for the Foo Fighters drummer.
The iconic rocker goes home to Detroit for a different brand of shock and awe.
While most legacy rockers are hitting the road rather than bothering to write new music, Young refuses to stop inventing.
