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.
Punchbag, I Am Obsessed
The South London sibling duo take stock of the clutter in their life with a second EP of rave-infused pop-punk that may convince the listener that it was actually recorded in 2012.
Earl Sweatshirt / MIKE / Surf Gang, Pompeii // Utility
Working over Surf Gang’s emollient cloud-rap sound beds, both rappers’ blackly comic takes on the fall of mankind in the 21st century come together in a show of unity, utility, and futility.
Jessie Ware, Superbloom
Three albums into her tenure as a pure-pleasure purveyor, Ware leans into the featherweight grooves of the ABBA era for a smooth yet occasionally frictionless epilogue to the trilogy.
Dean Brandt
photo by Travis Button
Eric Biddines controls his flow over Paul White’s weirdo assemblage.
photo by Daniel Dorsa
Justin Wilcox and Jeffrey Silverstein’s guitars gently weep.
photo by Olivia Vale
The Texan is back with more woozy cosmic country from the edges.
It’s the North American premiere of the “Everything is Forgotten” clip.
New-wave thrash from Chicago.
photo by Lindsey Ross
From the forthcoming “Cold Spring.”
From last year’s “Pennied Days.”
photo by Kristin Cofer
“Miss Taken” is out June 30 via Castle Face.
photo by Nicole Mago
A virtuosic performance from Mary Beth Richardson.
The young Portland punk has more styles than Harry.
“A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” is not a chip flavor. “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Falafel” almost is.
photo by Maxwell Lukas Gay
The Chicago rapper’s “The Boy Who Spoke to the Wind” is out June 23 via Mello Music Group.
photo by Divine Enfant
The Suicide instrumentalist releases his ninth solo LP, “Demolition 9,” on Friday.
“Rough Roads” is out now via Voodoo Doughnut Recordings.
Amateurs, GTFO.
photo by Tamas Bernath
Dark times call for dark music.
A long, long way from New York, Greta Kline and David Maine joined us for an acoustic version of the “Next Thing” track.
“Officer, I promise, it’s only milk.”
Brooklyn’s best new punks show their softer side.
From March’s “Bad Posture.”
