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.
Minnesota Artists United Against ICE, Melt ICE
This gigantic comp album featuring 110 Minnesotan artists raising funds for immigrant communities terrorized by ICE may also happen to be where you find your new favorite band.
Morrissey, Make-Up Is a Lie
It isn’t always hard to trick ourselves into remembering Moz as he once was on this return-to-form solo LP as he matches mischievous observations with a winning brand of melancholy pop.
Bill Callahan, My Days of 58
Well-observed, a bit absurd, and wholly singular, this “hobo stew” permits each instrument and each musical idea to embrace Callahan’s discursive lyrical and structural style.
A.D. Amorosi
Jarvis Cocker, at his home in the Peak District, UK. June 17, 2020.
Tom Jamieson for The New York Times
In support of his new concert film, Cocker recalls his slow adaptation to live performance and explains his unexpected obsession with caves.
No one’s excesses are as glorious and ornate as Elton John’s.
This recording of Cave’s tearful solo performance offers warmth, elegance, and smart solace.
The reissue of Costellos’ maximal-overdrive third LP manages to sound crisper than its original recording.
Khan’s jazz album is a logical continuation of the merry-making avant-garde that defines every other KK record.
“Knives” is the sound of a pre-pandemic band going for all the weird gusto they can.
The incendiary music-making trio from Colombia’s Caribbean coast fuse Afro-house and Indigenous rhythms with a frank, humanist political stance.
The animated four-piece host the wildest, most guest-heavy apocalyptic party since “This Is the End.”
What we’re excited for on the third weekend of RSD’s pandemic-necessitated three-part event, ahead of its November Black Friday finale.
The industrial hip-hop group’s allegorical monsters are all too real on their latest LP.
Though recorded in a pre-pandemic setting last winter, “Letter to You” feels unusually safe.
The Kentucky-born-and-bred singer-songwriter is shutting down small-minded prejudices.
Garzón-Montano has created one of the most thought-provoking and atmospheric R&B albums of 2020.
The “Gimme Some Truth” box makes Lennon’s solo output sound better, brighter, and of a piece.
The mostly vocal album plucks from all that made the Sonic Youth dynamic so prickly and daring.
The Chilean-French artist moves from the screen and the page to the human body with his new film, “Psychomagic: A Healing Art.”
“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.
What we’re excited for on the second weekend of RSD’s pandemic-necessitated three-part event.
The composers of Janelle Monáe’s newest film discuss the project, as well as their origins in the Wondaland Arts Society.
The multifaceted songwriter discusses the amorphous “Gen Hoshino genre,” his new American audience, and his contribution to Dua Lipa’s new remix LP.
