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.
Joy Division, Eternal
With its recently discovered live volumes as its focus, this career-ranging box set valuably continues to lay flat the post-punk band’s sound at its most raw and unadorned.
Meg Lui, Instant Validation
Partnering with Sufjan Stevens on her perky debut album of freewheeling folk-pop, country-rock, and even sea shanties, the Catskills-based songwriter flits between genres with ease.
Empress Of, Dream House
On a prismatic album about reconstruction and fulfillment, the Honduran-American songwriter embodies pure-hearted conviction to remind us home is where the heart is.
Brian Josephs
The hip-hop threesome on their self-titled debut and the freedom of being from Arizona.
Open Mike Eagle and Baron Vaughn’s new show presents a platform for black, left-of-mainstream acts.
The “Problem Areas” creator navigates diversity in the writers’ room, gentrification, and the surreality of modern America.
Following the fifteenth anniversary of BET’s “Hey Monie!,” key figures from the show look back on the now-obscure animation that was ahead of its time.
