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.
Dry Cleaning, Secret Love
With the help of producer Cate Le Bon, the South London quartet’s third album sands down their jagged post-punk edges into smooth, surreal pebbles of magical realism.
Various artists, Passages: Artists in Solidarity with Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers
These unheard tracks from Dirty Projectors, Daniel Lopatin, and more are hushed and raw, all crafted with the idea of evoking a sense of home to highlight those whose own are at risk.
HEALTH, Conflict DLC
The noise-rockers’ sixth LP is a full-on rush of nihilistic energy, a shattered disco ball serving as the perfect encapsulation of a world decimated by capitalistic greed at the expense of humanity.
Bailey Pennick
2014. Wildcat! Wildcat!, “No Moon at All” album art
For their debut full-length, No Moon at All, Los Angeles trio Wildcat! Wildcat! skipped the sand and headed straight for nighttime adventures, full of bright lights and car stereo systems.
from The Voyager, 2014; photo credit Autumn De Wilde
The Los Angeles songstress goes through the tracks on her new solo record, The Voyager; plus, killing her darlings,working with Beck and Ryan Adams, and what “Wonderwall” has to do with it.
2014 Alvvays self-titled album art
There’s something about a melancholy message presented in the sweetest packaging that makes that sadness even more heartbreaking.
2014 Interpol press photo by Eliot Lee Hazel
Last month we shared a live video of Interpol performing a brand new song from El Pintor in London. Today…
2014. She & Him press photo by Autumn de Wilde
The undeniably sweet (and oh so catchy) duo of Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, better known as She & Him,…
2014 press photo of Wildcat! Wildcat!
Having Morgan Kibby (M83, White Sea) co-produce your debut full-length can do wonders for your budding sound. At least, that…
2014 promo photo for new Coke product
Here’s what Coke’s stevia-sweetened “Coca-Cola Life” looks like. Green means healthy right? (via Business Insider)
2014
After much speculation (probably too much if you really think about it), today online shopping behemoth, Amazon, announced Fire phone—its…
