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.
Kathryn Mohr, Carve
A product of the desolate environment in which it was made, the Bay Area experimentalist’s second album pairs bare-bones grunge with evocative field recordings.
Johnny Blue Skies & the Dark Clouds, Mutiny After Midnight
Capturing the perpetual boogie that makes his live show so impressive, Sturgill Simpson’s latest LP throws the throttle down, turns the choogle up, and stares the cold world dead in the eyes.
The Monochrome Set, Lotus Bridge
Poised, exotic, and engaging from start to finish, the English jangle-pop outfit’s unexpected delight of a 17th studio album is a magical soundtrack for this uncertain spring.
Bryan Reesman
Ben Ringham on the brothers’ road from drum ’n’ bass to Broadway.
The Auckland art rock band’s co-frontman looks back on the project’s mid-’70s beginnings—and to the future, as the group charts their first set of dates since 2009.
With his photo exhibit documenting the band’s live show between 1994 and 1996 landing in LA between March 6 and 9, Rach looks back on that exciting and turbulent moment in NIN’s career.
The musical comedian discusses The Illustrated Al, the new graphic novel anthology inspired by his songs, as well as his lifelong love for MAD magazine.
As the LA-based rockers tour their new LP She Said, their animated frontperson lists seven spooky-season movies that get under her skin.
Founder Yongman Kim discusses the pioneering video store’s revival at its new home in Lower Manhattan’s Alamo Drafthouse.
The pair discuss collaborating on the astral four-album series.
