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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Dry Cleaning, Secret Love
With the help of producer Cate Le Bon, the South London quartet’s third album sands down their jagged post-punk edges into smooth, surreal pebbles of magical realism.
Various artists, Passages: Artists in Solidarity with Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers
These unheard tracks from Dirty Projectors, Daniel Lopatin, and more are hushed and raw, all crafted with the idea of evoking a sense of home to highlight those whose own are at risk.
HEALTH, Conflict DLC
The noise-rockers’ sixth LP is a full-on rush of nihilistic energy, a shattered disco ball serving as the perfect encapsulation of a world decimated by capitalistic greed at the expense of humanity.
A.D. Amorosi
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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
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 + TVIn Conversation
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
