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.
Various artists, All These Things I Thought I Knew: A Compilation Tribute to the Late LD Beghtol
This tribute to the late songwriter and Magnetic Fields collaborator is something of a family affair, with close friends and clever familiars gathering to celebrate the artist’s dearly dour discography.
Portrayal of Guilt, …Beginning of the End
The Austin trio pushes into new territories within the frameworks of hardcore and metal, inserting flourishes of trip-hop, nu metal, and even Memphis rap into their aggressive package.
VINSON, Raw Honey
The debut album from the Detroit-reared artist jumps from jazz to electronica to R&B while always maintaining a cohesive structure of easy Sunday-morning vibes.
A.D. Amorosi
Ernest Green discusses his new album “Purple Noon,” the French film that inspired it, and his newfound love for collaboration.
The 1970 set captures the band in full, frenetic death swoon.
Both new projects pull the curtain back on missed moments, eras of Cash once considered minor.
With the new Lightfoot doc premiering today, we revisit a conversation we had with the legendary songwriter earlier this year upon the release of his 21st album.
The co-founder of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club speaks gleefully in his memoir, out today.
“Beyond the Pale” feels tight, tense, yet free, with pasty Cocker as the broodingly bittersweet centerpiece.
This Nelson isn’t bleak, but he sure comes close to it.
Remembering the iconic Italian film composer, who died this week at 91.
The singer/songwriter on love and politics, mom and dad, and his frank new album, Unfollow the Rules.
The R&B star’s lengthy new record is rife with positivist, lush, classic R&B with a ’90s revisionist twist.
The trio’s third LP sticks to piledriving and fluid rhythms while stoking their flames of melody like never before.
Dylan once again reinvents himself for his first album of original songs since 2012.
Solitude, mortality, and ascendancy make “All Things Being Equal” an unearthly delight.
Together, Bowie and Pop all but forged a raw, sketchy, true alternative sound.
Gaga’s sixth album bathes her in issues of inclusivity—but did it have to make her sound like part of the crowd?
“Expect the Unexpected” pays homage to tradition and opens doors to unlimited perceptions.
The producer and songwriter-for-hire’s new project is mostly just a front for hanging out with Daniel Ledinsky.
Merritt talks Florian Schnieder, dates with Jesus, and writing songs under the 2:15 mark.
“Drip Drip Drip”is as unnervingly varied as most of the Mael brothers work—especially in the twenty-first century.
The new coffee table book on Roky Erickson’s band is out now via Anthology Editions.
