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
The new box set celebrates Brown’s exploration of rough-hewn art rock with a twist alongside his crew Kingdom Come.
Red Hot beats as it hasn’t in quite some time, pushing its participants further than you may have imagined.
Artists, tape manufacturers, and distributors weigh in on major-label involvement in the latest trend in physical music media.
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Gang of Four finally get their tribute thanks to Tom Morello and friends with “The Problem of Leisure: A Celebration of Andy Gill and Gang of Four.”
Tyler shows off his progress as a rapper with a power and musicality you knew he had in him, yet feared he’d let slide.
There is glee to be found in every crevice of the Bronx rapper’s immersion in house music and bossa nova.
The Mute Records founder and Depeche Mode producer talk collaboration, modular synths, and the influence of Kraftwerk on their new record.
The multimedia artist discusses his new project “Hope,” which merges music, film, and sculpture.
This edition offers more mind-expanding madness in demo form, a never-before-released live album, and explosive re-mastered sound.
Here’s 22 new releases we’re excited for with the return of RSD on June 12
This warm, mossy 50th anniversary reissue benefits from the dirtball proceedings of its homespun recording sessions and its homier, oblong songs.
The new BBE Music tribute comp and Sukita’s art book “Eternity” remember the artist as feline, fragile, and soulful.
Both records remain stunning after nearly 45 years, with neither losing their punch or import.
Germany’s beloved experimentalists get to the heart of their art with a series of never-before-released live albums kicking off this Friday.
Faithfull finds sympathetic, poetic tones and empathetic lilting melodies in the guise of producer/violinist Ellis.
The retrospective on the artist, whose work you may know from Pavement and Silver Jews album covers, has nearly reached its Kickstarter goal.
The mega-box set gives rabid fans something to hold onto, stuffing the band’s innovative discography into an immense treasure chest.
The British comedian isn’t laughing anymore (well, not while making his seriously soulful psychedelic music).
We talked to curator Lee Foster about the new site he’s running with the Johnston family to share the late songwriter’s visual art.
This posthumous LP is less a grand finale summing up a career than it is another piece of a greater puzzle.
