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.
Geologist, Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?
The debut solo album from Animal Collective’s Brian Ross Weitz is an entrancing experiment with the unusual sound of hurdy-gurdy at its highly stylized center.
Joyce Manor, I Used to Go to This Bar
The Torrance punks’ seventh album sees the trio firing on all cylinders with their signature punchy hooks and catchy choruses culminating in 19 minutes of sheer pop-punk glory.
Searows, Death in the Business of Whaling
Alec Duckart’s nautically themed second album infuses its emotionally fragile indie-folk with a trudging heaviness that pushes toward doom-metal territory.
Dean Brandt
From the Seattle trio’s February record “Sincerely.”
Journey through the past, darkly.
photo by John Gutierrez
Another “Olden Goldie” cut gets a clip.
photo by Elise Mesner
From the Captured Tracks release “New Work.”
photo by Nicole and Jax Anderson
The Detroit electro quartet’s debut is out September 22.
From October’s “Cult Psychotica.”
The LA-via-Portland avant-popsters announce their return.
photo by Bread Casey
From the group’s forthcoming “Crew Licks.”
The New York musician builds a wall of sound in the Catskills.
All the googaws and whatsits you need to heighten your festing experience.
photo by Andrew Brodhed for TuneIn
Growing up on the road isn’t exactly easy.
Courtesy of Spacebomb Records.
photo by Travis Button
Plus, tune in next weekend to catch the festival live from Happy Valley, OR.
From the Boston garage trio’s forthcoming EP “Play Loud Die, Vol. II.”
California and Germany ain’t the only places making new-age music.
photo by Ali Nogueiras
Seek succor.
photo by Stefanie Vinsel
The Mexican-American songwriter offers a timely lament.
photo by Eli Moore
Pastel tones out of Olympia.
photo by Kimberly Young Sun
The NY-based singer lets his hair out.
Country rock and roll will never die.
