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.
Dan Epstein
At 64, Blakesberg talks continuing to pursue his passion for “photographing bliss” as his career-spanning “The Music Never Stopped” exhibit wraps up at the GRAMMY Museum.
The prolific English songwriter discusses his “most realized record in a long time,” The Confuser, as well as the importance of making fun music in unhappy times.
A staff writer at the nonprofit focused on the US criminal justice system, Maurice Chammah details his Redemption Songs project and its goal of turning listeners on to various periods and styles of music recorded by the incarcerated.
The band’s guitarist and co-vocalist shares his recollections behind every song on the band’s 1968 psychedelic pop masterpiece in honor of its recent mono reissue.
The Band Squeeze in 2025 photographed by Dean Chalkley
Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook discuss their new concept album about a fictional nightclub that was originally recorded as demos way back in 1974 when the duo were teens.
From funk icons to Canadian body-builders, we rank some of the oddest figures gunning for the holiday music canon.
Inside the new documentary with producer John Wood, plus a First Look at George Harrison’s segment in the film.
Ozzy Osbourne during an interview for the documentary film “The Decline Of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years,” Mulholland Drive, Hollywood, California. 12 September 1987.
Remembering the Prince of Fuckin’ Darkness Ozzy Osbourne, who passed away this week at 76.
The British songwriter discusses digging deep for the tracks he recorded for his 18th album Find El Dorado.
10 songs by musicians who were significantly impacted by Sly Stone, who passed away this week at the age of 82.
After a brush with cancer, the Irish songwriter discusses why his new R&B-tinged LP Hey Panda might be his last with the project—and what he has in store for the future.
Along with his wife and collaborator Denée, the prolific garage rocker discusses how communication, inconsistency, and ego death shaped his deeply immersive 15th studio album.
The legendary pop crooner made a holiday mix for FLOOD readers.
Label founder Bruce Licher and Shiva Burlesque singer Jeffrey Clark discuss reviving the project over 40 years after it was initially launched, as well as Licher’s striking letterpress design work.
The band’s guitarist/keyboardist discusses restoring the concert film’s iconic soundtrack, reuniting with his band at TIFF, and their journey to funk.
Songwriter Galen Ayers and The Clash’s Paul Simonon share how they avoided repeating old ideas on their new record Can We Do Tomorrow Another Day?.
The Zombies – Photography by ALEX LAKE insta @twoshortdays WWW.TWOSHORTDAYS.COM
The group’s lead vocalist discusses releasing new music while gearing up for the debut of a forthcoming documentary chronicling the legendary act’s early years.
The new wave icons’ founding member discusses his new RSD Black Friday exclusive EP, decades of resistance, and squid risotto in our recent chat.
The group’s guest-heavy ninth album, How Do You Burn?, is out now via Royal Cream/BMG.
Joined by Alloy Tracks’ Bryce Miller and Troy MacCubbin, Perry discusses why he believes the 1983 hit resonates so deeply in 2022.
