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.
Friko, Something Worth Waiting For
With their second album, the Chicago band sheds their tough noise-pop exterior to reveal a more delicate sound—and emotional truisms to match—as they grow more confident.
Beastie Boys, To the 5 Boroughs [Deluxe Edition]
A sparer sound backing sociopolitical ruminations on their hometown post-9/11 defines the rap trio’s sixth LP then and now, in its extended, era-intensive three-LP version.
Foo Fighters, Your Favorite Toy
Dave Grohl focuses on the objects in life that keep us grounded when times are just plain weird on the band’s 12th LP, which is less a total reinvention than a vital recalibration.
A.D. Amorosi
The original Stillwater songs—penned by Cameron Crowe with Peter Frampton and Heart’s Nancy Wilson—are better here, at home, than they were in the theater back in 2000.
It’s in its marriage to the film that this soundtrack is best served; cold and bleakly comical with an operatic repetitiveness worthy of Philip Glass.
Utkarsh Ambudkar as Mouser and Joe Keery as Keys in 20th Century Studios’ FREE GUY. Photo by Alan Markfield. © 2020 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
The co-star of “Stranger Things” and the new Ryan Reynolds arcade-adventure “Free Guy” talks psychedelia, porn staches, and body-painted costumes.
The composer shows off a mind for menacing, tactile music which meshes the oceanic-winded scale of the elements.
This 50th anniversary reissue adds an oomph that’s crucial to its rhythm arrangements and the tremor of Harrison’s treble-heavy guitar work.
The unearthed 2010 LP is more fun than inventive, and a whole lot of very-OK, faux-sexy, R&B rawkouts.
Martinez discusses doing his own thing on his solo debut as Bardo, “Everywhere Reminds Me of Space.”
Sly & Robbie’s Sly Dunbar and production duo Zak & Sshh talk U-Roy’s legacy and the innovative vocalist’s new posthumous LP “Solid Gold.”
Amarante’s second solo album is the work of a vexingly imaginative, subtly unpredictable, and ruminatively humorous composer.
The composer pulls from prayerful moments with voice and Wurlitzer electric organ to awe-inspiring results.
23 new releases we’re excited for during RSD Drop 2 on July 17.
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.
