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.
Caroline Rose, Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall
Blending synthpop, alt-country, and punk, the songwriter’s surrealist vision of American suburbia in 2026 is fueled by tracks that rip and soak in the moments they depict.
Sour Widows, Sigil
The Bay Area duo confronts grief and cruelty while making space for necessary indulgence on their second LP, with producer Melina Duterte pushing them toward bolder arrangements.
Grumpy, Unfindable Ring
After a pair of EPs opened the door to shapeshifting unpredictability, Heaven Schmitt’s second LP leans into an emotive, purposefully fragmented sound that remains impossible to pin down.
Cameron Crowell
WHAT ARE YOU HIDING PUNY HUMAN JOHN DWYER, RING POSSIBLY?
photo by Pamela Ayala
The world’s best American band proves it all night.
During times of protest, resistance is sometimes reduced to consuming the right media. Sheer Mag are a big fuck-you to that type of complacency.
“Soft Sounds” shows Michelle Zauner constantly reinventing herself, proving that she can dabble in any genre and produce something that stands with the best of them.
In the fractured Age of Trump, listening to voices from outside of the mainstream is more important than ever.
There’s a perpetually moving world out there.
On her latest with Cold Beat, Hannah Lew toys with the false dichotomy that implies that the complicated and difficult-to-listen-to have inherently more to say than a simple, accessible pop song.
NE-HI / photo by Bryan Allen Lamb
The Chicago quartet give sunny garage pop a melancholy tweak.
Le Bon’s music lives in an alternate universe—one that’s nearly identical to ours, but laden with a persistent feeling of anxiety.
Behind the blur of words and scrim of melodrama, Amy Sherman-Palladino’s beloved series shows us a buffoonish tyrant at work.
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There’s a new texture and flavor to the raw, pouring-salt-on-a-wound sadness coming out of Torrance.
Don’t call it a breakup record.
The Memphis band’s grinding, atonal punk is matched by their dedication to garage-rock bombast.
Framed by flags and game tents, a rider on the ferris wheel throws his hands to the heavens as golden light from the setting sun bathes warm colors on the Orange County Fairgrounds, Saturday evening in Costa Mesa. (Photo by Richard Hartog/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Cameron Crowell spent the summer cleaning up barf while “Pour Some Sugar on Me” blasted from speakers overhead. And yet: he’s still alive.
