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.
John Carpenter, Cathedral
The Halloween composer-director’s latest effort is a synth-heavy metal album planned as a soundtrack to his first-ever graphic novel, though both endeavors stand on their own merits.
Ariana Grande, Petal
The pop star’s eighth record finds roots in resilience, twisted romance, and unsparing musings on fame, though it never quite ascends to the extravagant spectacle it sets the stage for.
Syd, Beard
The producer and songwriter’s third album unfolds like a slow-burn romance that prioritizes subtlety over spectacle, though its unbothered warmth can feel frustratingly one-note.
A.D. Amorosi
Bored Ape Yacht Club #9797—a.k.a. Jimbo—on becoming the first NFT to make and release its own music video with the electro-shock-trap-hop of “Delist your ape (2DaMoon).”
The Brooklyn collective have never sounded more sure-footed and effortlessly melodic than they do with this gathering of friends.
Both recent live albums see the songwriter reinventing his and others’ songs with care, invention, and consideration.
Kim Gordon and Bill Nace continue along their improvised music path with the help of fellow avant-garde journeyperson Aaron Dilloway.
Bowie collaborator Mark Plati details the new box set “Brilliant Adventure,” which includes the long-lost LP “Toy” recorded in 2000 among other curios from the preceding decade.
On the pair’s first full-album collaboration, spaced-out ambience and abstract linguistics come together for something unique, brutal, and beautiful.
Kacey Musgraves
With Adele contributing “30” to the canon, here are a dozen other albums that poetically and coarsely tackle legal uncoupling.
Both new releases happily and uniquely go further into defining the myth and the magic of Brian Wilson.
28 new releases we’re excited for during this year’s post-Thanksgiving RSD Drop in November.
The Depeche Mode frontman talks developing his skills as a songwriter both with his band and on his new collection of covers with Soulsavers.
For its 40th anniversary, the Stones’ loose and louche 1981 LP gets a sweet, era-appropriate polish job.
The band’s fourth album is full of hooks, shifting moods, and cushiony tunes without dismissing speed or ferocity.
The latest from the Canadian emcee finds itself often humorously in a place of connecting the disparate dots of being Black.
The Philly-based ensemble smooth over their rougher complexities and craft a record that’s oddly happy and broadly familial.
His first album for 4AD welcomes a larger musical ensemble, a livelier palate of sound, and lushly verdant vibes that go beyond.
This 6-CD/LP box—including rarities, live cuts, and alternate mixes—burrows deep and handsomely below the surface.
This soundtrack to PBS’s Big Bend National Park doc provides a chill sonic tonic with nature as its somnolent guide.
Director Haynes goes Underground with a documentary on all things Reed, Cale, Nico, and Warhol.
We spoke to the English songwriter on the occasion of his former glam/prog collective’s massive new “Live! In the Air Age” box set.
Barrett’s box set portrays honest, positivist music with a mission far beyond self-gratification or artistic vision.
