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.
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Hole, Pretty on the Inside [Reissue]
Featuring denser, remastered sound and its original bonus 12-inch, the deluxe version of the grunge icons’ debut is a claustrophobic, jam-packed, corrosive epic.
Lily Seabird, Lightspheres on Their Way
The indie-folk songwriter’s elegiac second LP for Lame-O truly shines when her unrestrained emotion meets the full, honey-slide rancor of her band and its influences.
Dawn Richard, Creole Culture
Made in homage to the vibrancy of New Orleans’ musical history, the eclectic R&B artist’s first solo album in five years is all giddy momentum.
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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
FLOOD’s Guide to Record Store Day 2020 Part 3: Chromeo, Miles Davis, Grateful Dead, and More
What we’re excited for on the third weekend of RSD’s pandemic-necessitated three-part event, ahead of its November Black Friday finale.
October 23, 2020
clipping. Discuss the Horror, Afrofuturism, and Reality of “Visions of Bodies Being Burned”
The industrial hip-hop group’s allegorical monsters are all too real on their latest LP.
October 22, 2020
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Bruce Springsteen, “Letter to You”
Though recorded in a pre-pandemic setting last winter, “Letter to You” feels unusually safe.
October 22, 2020
Breaking
S.G. Goodman on the New, Fresh, and Politicized Country of “Old Time Feeling”
The Kentucky-born-and-bred singer-songwriter is shutting down small-minded prejudices.
October 16, 2020
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Gabriel Garzón-Montano, “Agüita”
Garzón-Montano has created one of the most thought-provoking and atmospheric R&B albums of 2020.
October 14, 2020
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John Lennon, “Gimme Some Truth: The Ultimate Mixes”
The “Gimme Some Truth” box makes Lennon’s solo output sound better, brighter, and of a piece.
October 12, 2020
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Thurston Moore, “By the Fire”
The mostly vocal album plucks from all that made the Sonic Youth dynamic so prickly and daring.
October 07, 2020
Film & TV
In Conversation: Alejandro Jodorowsky on the Intersection of Art and Healing
The Chilean-French artist moves from the screen and the page to the human body with his new film, “Psychomagic: A Healing Art.”
October 05, 2020
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Lou Reed, “New York: Deluxe Edition” + Lou Reed & John Cale, “Songs for Drella”
“New York” gets the deluxe box set treatment this week, while “Drella” gets a Record Store Day release three weeks later, a first on vinyl.
September 30, 2020
FLOOD’s Guide to Record Store Day 2020 Part 2: Notorious B.I.G, Fleetwood Mac, Tove Lo and More
What we’re excited for on the second weekend of RSD’s pandemic-necessitated three-part event.
September 25, 2020
Film & TVIn Conversation
In Conversation: Nate Wonder and Roman GianArthur on the Heartbeat of “Antebellum”
The composers of Janelle Monáe’s newest film discuss the project, as well as their origins in the Wondaland Arts Society.
September 25, 2020
In Conversation
In Conversation: Gen Hoshino’s Magical Multiplicity
The multifaceted songwriter discusses the amorphous “Gen Hoshino genre,” his new American audience, and his contribution to Dua Lipa’s new remix LP.
September 21, 2020
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Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, “Just Coolin’” + Thelonious Monk, “Palo Alto”
Neither of these jazz recordings is any less mysterious or magical just because they’re finally available at large.
September 21, 2020
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The Rolling Stones, “Goats Head Soup: Super Deluxe Edition”
The reason to invest in Super Deluxe “Soup” is the once-pricey “Brussels Affair” live bootleg.
September 17, 2020
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Various Artists, “AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex”
This lot, quiet or loud, make for an exquisite vision of T. Rex.
September 16, 2020
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The Flaming Lips, “American Head”
The latest from the Lips is a peculiarly placid sound that only this collection of artists seem capable of making.
September 14, 2020
In Conversation
In Conversation: Georgia Anne Muldrow on Finding Freedom as Jyoti
The Alice Coltrane–gifted pseudonym resurfaced for a third record, released last Friday.
August 31, 2020
FLOOD’s Guide to Record Store Day 2020 Part 1: Bowie, Gorillaz, Denzel Curry, and More
RSD’s pandemic-necessitated three-part event kicks off this weekend—we talked to co-creator Michael Kurtz about what to expect, as well as preview twelve releases we’re excited for.
August 28, 2020
