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 pair’s latest is a theatrical, diabolically abstract, and damningly depressive work with a blinding brightness at the end of the tunnel.
Younge’s bold new music/spoken word LP is his most stirring, politicized, and down-to-earth release to date.
Shaka King’s new movie examines the largely untold story of BPP Chairman Fred Hampton, whose assassination was instigated by the FBI.
Banhart walks us through his new exhibit “The Grief I Have Caused You,” which runs through March 20 in LA and virtually.
All the diversity on the oddly alluring neo-psych group’s fourth record doesn’t always make for great intrigue.
These Southern-rubbed and Philly-styled recordings open the vocalist up to a freedom she never experienced before or after.
Hall, Peter Yanowitz, and Matt Katz-Bohen on their new electronic art-rock noise record “Thanks for Coming.”
Between the reissue of his diary and the 2020 releases of his collab with brother Roger Eno and his first collection of film scores, it feels like we’re undergoing another Eno-aissance.
With a recent children’s book, a new single, and an up-coming EP, Raj Haldar proves he’s all in the family.
A deep dive into pop’s rare past with a man who made the journey bold, original, and downright frisky.
Tony Di Blasi and Robbie Chater talk collaboration, efficient songwriting, and David Berman following the release of their third LP.
This rare solo release from the Depeche Mode songwriter is memorably haunting.
The write raw-boned, ruined country anthems of “Strawberry Mansion” make it a neighborhood worth visiting.
These demos and fuller, remixed recordings show off more of the Albert-Ayler-meets-Iggy-Pop thing that Hell and his band probably intended.
Iggy Pop’s last gasp with the original Stooges is hyper-energized and essential listening alongside the official canon.
The glam-punk guitarist has passed away at the age of 69 after a two-year battle with cancer.
The Apple TV+ series and forthcoming feature prove that the director/writer still has many scary tricks up his sleeve.
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.
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.
12 records we were pleased to see renewed and revamped.
If anything was an enabler of glam pop, it was “Lola.”
