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.
Bob Dylan, The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1976 Live Recordings
Capturing 22 different shows on the titular mid-’70s tour, each torrid, angst-ridden live take on this 39-disc collection sounds more manically driven than the gig before it.
Caspian, Caspian
On their self-titled sixth album, the shapeshifting Massachusetts post-rock outfit reminds us of their true identity as storytellers of epic songs without words.
Cult of Luna, In the Shadow of Your Shadow
The Swedish post-metal pioneers’ intense 10th full-length is among their darkest, hardest-hitting statements as it searches this scorched earth for shafts of rapturous light.
Alex Machock
For the last time, rock isn’t dead—but there’s still a lot that could use a revival.
Before GarageBand gave you an excuse to just do it badly yourself, you actually had to pay people to make your drum tracks sound awful. Time to fire up “Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater” and take a listen to a few of the worst.
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We don’t deserve it.
2010. Sean Nicholas Savage Mutual Feelings of Respect and Admiration cover
Lo-fi crooner disco isn’t exactly a genre with clear lines of intent and seriousness, but looking back at one (the only?) key example shows that nothing ever sounded so sincere.
