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.
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Charli XCX, Music, Fashion, Film
The pop star’s guitar-strewn reset is the stuff of savage, searing power-pop with primal, minimalist rhythms and a hint of sleek, sizzling electronics.
The Strokes, Reality Awaits
With their first album in six years, the influential garage rockers have defiantly moved on from slacker apathy in favor of a synthier era defined by an unexpected foray into the political.
Mojave 3, Mojave 3: 1995-2006
The Slowdive offshoot’s five melancholic LPs were remastered to more clearly express Rachel Goswell and Neil Halstead’s vision of hillbilly heartache and dustbowl romanticism.
Dean Brandt
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photo by Travis Button
PREMIERE: Golden Rules Get Giggly at “Auntie Pearl’s House” for Pickathon Slab Sessions
Eric Biddines controls his flow over Paul White’s weirdo assemblage.
July 07, 2017
photo by Daniel Dorsa
PREMIERE: Nassau Salute the “Risin’ Sun” on New Single
Justin Wilcox and Jeffrey Silverstein’s guitars gently weep.
July 06, 2017
photo by Olivia Vale
PREMIERE: Monk Parker Returns From the Shadows with “Prom”
The Texan is back with more woozy cosmic country from the edges.
July 05, 2017
PREMIERE: 4AD’s Methyl Ethel Are Comfortably Conflicted in “Drink Wine” Video
It’s the North American premiere of the “Everything is Forgotten” clip.
June 27, 2017
PREMIERE: Absolutely Not Aren’t Sticking to the Prime Directive in “Blood Money”
New-wave thrash from Chicago.
June 26, 2017
photo by Lindsey Ross
PREMIERE: Fletcher Tucker Crumbles on the Coast in “Descend”
From the forthcoming “Cold Spring.”
June 22, 2017
PREMIERE: Night Moves Wish You “Kind Luck” in New Video
From last year’s “Pennied Days.”
June 20, 2017
photo by Kristin Cofer
PREMIERE: Male Gaze Demand That You “Tell Me How It Is”
“Miss Taken” is out June 30 via Castle Face.
June 15, 2017
photo by Nicole Mago
PREMIERE: Banditos Make You Sweat in “Healin’ Slow” Video
A virtuosic performance from Mary Beth Richardson.
June 09, 2017
PREMIERE: Sprint Through “My New Necklace”‘s Marathon with Turtlenecked
The young Portland punk has more styles than Harry.
June 07, 2017
Art & Culture
24 Flavors of Chips Named for Bob Dylan That Aren’t Just a Song Title
“A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” is not a chip flavor. “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Falafel” almost is.
June 05, 2017
photo by Maxwell Lukas Gay
PREMIERE: Lando Chill Bucks Police Brutality in “No Paz”
The Chicago rapper’s “The Boy Who Spoke to the Wind” is out June 23 via Mello Music Group.
May 23, 2017
photo by Divine Enfant
PREMIERE: Martin Rev Offers “Vision of Mari”
The Suicide instrumentalist releases his ninth solo LP, “Demolition 9,” on Friday.
May 22, 2017
PREMIERE: Top Down Spread Their “Silver Ashes” in Video from Tour with Fred and Toody of Dead Moon
“Rough Roads” is out now via Voodoo Doughnut Recordings.
May 15, 2017
PREMIERE: Les Biches Offer up “Fun For Professionals”
Amateurs, GTFO.
May 11, 2017
photo by Tamas Bernath
PREMIERE: Street Eaters Channel Ursula K. Le Guin, Savages on “The Envoy” LP
Dark times call for dark music.
May 10, 2017
PREMIERE: Frankie Cosmos Strips Down “On the Lips” in Iceland for Original Tracks
A long, long way from New York, Greta Kline and David Maine joined us for an acoustic version of the “Next Thing” track.
May 08, 2017
PREMIERE: Milk Insist They’re “Too High to Drive” in New Single
“Officer, I promise, it’s only milk.”
May 03, 2017
PREMIERE: B Boys Make With the Freak Freak on “Walking”
Brooklyn’s best new punks show their softer side.
May 02, 2017
PREMIERE: John Andrews and the Yawns Do “It’s So Easy” in a Barn
From March’s “Bad Posture.”
May 01, 2017
