With 232 pages and an expanded 12″ by 12″ format, our biggest print issue yet celebrates the people, places, music, and art of our hometown, including cover features on David Lynch, Nipsey Hussle, Syd, and Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, plus Brian Wilson, Cuco, Ty Segall, Lord Huron, Remi Wolf, The Doors, the art of RISK, Taz, Estevan Oriol, Kii Arens, and Edward Colver, and so much more.
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Photo by Michael Muller. Image design by Gene Bresler at Catch Light Digital. Cobver design by Jerome Curchod.
Phoebe Bridgers makeup: Jenna Nelson (using Smashbox Cosmetics)
Phoebe Bridgers hair: Lauren Palmer-Smith
MUNA hair/makeup: Caitlin Wronski
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Stereolab, Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Their first new album in fifteen years spins on an axis of subtly infectious refrains and gently askew rhythms—it’s avant-garde art-pop as something radically old yet experimentally new.
Sparks, MAD!
The Mael brothers’ 26th album purrs with sincere longings dedicated to romantic splits, though ultimately remains true to the duo’s idiosyncratic melody and tongue-in-cheek lyricism.
These New Puritans, Crooked Wing
The interplay of organ and voice throughout the Essex band’s fifth album creates a haunting document of the modern world wrestling for coexistence with the old world.
A.D. Amorosi
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Iggy and The Stooges, “You Think You’re Bad, Man: Road Tapes ’73-’74” + “From K.O. to Chaos”
Iggy Pop’s last gasp with the original Stooges is hyper-energized and essential listening alongside the official canon.
January 19, 2021
Jet Boy Gone: Remembering New York Dolls’ Sylvain Sylvain
The glam-punk guitarist has passed away at the age of 69 after a two-year battle with cancer.
January 15, 2021
Film + TVIn Conversation
In Conversation: M. Night Shyamalan on “Servant,” “Old,” and Adapting to Change
The Apple TV+ series and forthcoming feature prove that the director/writer still has many scary tricks up his sleeve.
January 12, 2021
A colour-enhanced image of English singer and musician David Bowie, exaggerating his heterochromia iridis, 1973. This photo was taken in Paris during a photoshoot for Bowie’s ‘Pin Ups’ album.
Five Years, Five Points of Light: Celebrating the Life of David Bowie Half a Decade After Losing Him
Mike Garson, Michael C. Hall, Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon, and more discuss their multimedia celebrations of Bowie on what would have been his 74th birthday.
January 08, 2021
Staff Picks
The Best Reissues and Box Sets of 2020
12 records we were pleased to see renewed and revamped.
December 21, 2020
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The Kinks, “Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoground, Part One” [Deluxe Reissue]
If anything was an enabler of glam pop, it was “Lola.”
December 17, 2020
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JPEGMAFIA, “EP!”
JPEGMAFIA keeps it mean while on the major label tip.
December 14, 2020
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Chris Cornell, “No One Sings Like You Anymore”
The Cornell estate gifts us with 10 subtle covers focused on melodic gems with a soft ensemble as backing.
December 11, 2020
In Conversation
In Conversation: Julien Temple on Working with Shane MacGowan on His New Pogues Doc “Crock of Gold”
The filmmaker talks profiling MacGowan, Johnny Depp’s role in the project, and peroxide-haired ’80s punk.
December 11, 2020
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Cabaret Voltaire, “Shadow of Fear”
By his lonesome, Richard H. Kirk is still making endearingly intrusive electronic noise with nagging catchiness in its subtle hooks
December 03, 2020
In Conversation
In Conversation: Maynard James Keenan’s Existential Dilemma with Puscifer
The Tool and A Perfect Circle frontman and bandmate Carina Round talk the band’s latest record, “Existential Reckoning.”
December 01, 2020
FLOOD’s Guide to Record Store Day Black Friday: John Prine, Pop Smoke, My Chemical Romance, and More
What we’re excited for on the last weekend of RSD’s pandemic-necessitated four-part event.
November 25, 2020
Jarvis Cocker, at his home in the Peak District, UK. June 17, 2020.
Tom Jamieson for The New York Times
In Conversation
In Conversation: Jarvis Cocker Takes Us to the Roots of His Work as JARV IS…
In support of his new concert film, Cocker recalls his slow adaptation to live performance and explains his unexpected obsession with caves.
November 24, 2020
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Elton John, “Jewel Box”
No one’s excesses are as glorious and ornate as Elton John’s.
November 23, 2020
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Nick Cave, “Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace”
This recording of Cave’s tearful solo performance offers warmth, elegance, and smart solace.
November 19, 2020
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Elvis Costello, “Armed Forces: Super Deluxe Edition”
The reissue of Costellos’ maximal-overdrive third LP manages to sound crisper than its original recording.
November 16, 2020
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King Khan, “The Infinite Ones”
Khan’s jazz album is a logical continuation of the merry-making avant-garde that defines every other KK record.
November 12, 2020
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The Mountain Goats, “Getting Into Knives”
“Knives” is the sound of a pre-pandemic band going for all the weird gusto they can.
October 30, 2020
Ghetto Kumbé on Embracing Cumbia, Indigenous Communities, and a Politics of Forgiveness
The incendiary music-making trio from Colombia’s Caribbean coast fuse Afro-house and Indigenous rhythms with a frank, humanist political stance.
October 29, 2020
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Gorillaz, “Song Machine: Season One – Strange Timez”
The animated four-piece host the wildest, most guest-heavy apocalyptic party since “This Is the End.”
October 26, 2020
