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.
Kneecap, Fenian
With bigger melodies and broader synth soundscapes, the rage-rave rap trio’s second LP takes an unexpected turn inward as they continue to take the politics of the world at large to task.
youbet, youbet
Penetratingly exact and proudly undefinable, Nick Llobet’s first album since expanding the project to a duo adds more definition to the sinewy, searching palette of their previous material.
Various artists, All These Things I Thought I Knew: A Compilation Tribute to the Late LD Beghtol
This tribute to the late songwriter and Magnetic Fields collaborator is something of a family affair, with close friends and clever familiars gathering to celebrate the artist’s dearly dour discography.
Annie Lesser
Aurora, Garbage, Weezer, TV on the Radio, Queens of the Stone Age, and more from Mexico City.
St. Vincent at Corona Capital / photo by Annie Lesser
Clairo, Jack White, Green Day, Beck, Cage the Elephant, and more from the annual festival in Mexico City.
Big Freedia, Kesha, Channel Tres, Adam Lambert, and more sights and sounds from West Hollywood’s annual LGBTQ+ Pride celebration.
Pulp
The trifecta of Britpop icons performed at the annual festival in Mexico City, along with The Hives, Phoenix, Fever Ray, MUNA, and many more.
We spoke with Teragram Presents’ Michael and Brian Swier, opening night headliners Phantogram, and other figures behind LA’s new music hotspot.
