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.
Madonna, Confessions II
Reteaming with producer Stuart Price for a sequel to her 2005 nu-disco LP, the pop star capitalizes on the velvet cordiality of her vocals with a sparkling new brand of arrangements.
Smirk, Speculative Fiction
On his most purposeful and driven release yet, Nick Vicario teams up with members of Hotline TNT, Poison Ruin, and Ceremony for a mid-tempo homage to ’80s horror-punk.
Pixies, Complete B-Sides 1988-97 [Reissue]
Neatly charting the band’s evolution from noise militants to pop eccentrics, the first-ever vinyl release of this collection reminds us that Pixies’ trash was often purer than their peers’ gold.
Dillon Riley
The Raleigh group reemerge from a period of emotional instability and music industry strife with big hooks and swinging sonic motifs that often thrillingly end far from where they begin.
Distilling familiar, if slightly incongruent influences into an uncanny listen, the Pittsburgh collective’s sophomore release makes good on the promise of their early offerings.
On their Topshelf debut, the Philly shoegaze group put an impressive twist on a precious sound that places them in a rarefied class of their own.
There’s a strange feeling lurking within each song on the duo’s debut, as if some extra musical element is just beyond the horizon, a shoe that’s yet to drop.
The Boston trio’s third album succeeds in setting the slowcore group apart from their contemporaries through sheer force of personality.
These 10 tracks of countrified indie rock sound primed to soundtrack plenty of beer-battered bull sessions.
Expect the project’s debut EP out March 19 via Babe City and Topshelf Records.
The Swedish band unearths an old tune in lieu of their cancelled tour with The Radio Dept.
