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.
Wishy, Nature’s Pill
The guitar-pop group expands upon their 2024 debut with a more relaxed effort emphasizing a stronger interplay between two co-vocalists who remain a match made in college-rock heaven.
Leon Bridges, Happiness Anytime
Continuing to defy expectations, the Texan R&B songwriter heads for the London dancefloor on a joyful collaboration with acid-jazz outfit Jungle.
Hermanos Gutiérrez, Los Ojos del Cóndor
Dedicated to the instrumental folk duo’s father, their forlorn cinematic expanse is given greater breadth and interwoven liveliness on their seventh LP.
FLOOD Staff
The underplay show in New York came together after the cancellation of All Things Go NYC.
Live scenes and atmosphere from Pier 80 in San Francisco, featuring Swedish House Mafia, Parcels, Tove Lo, DJ Shadow, underscores, a reunion of Skrillex and Boys Noize’s duo, and more.
Niko Stathakopolous plays “Chainsaw” and “Self Soothing” from his band’s new Chris Walla–produced album Strays Forever in a friend’s garden.
Nor’easter be damned: The show went on at Merriweather Post Pavilion with Remi Wolf, Slayyyter, Ethel Cain, Lola Young, and more.
Ahead of Dopamine Chamber, the band brought a 19-song set and a David Lynch dedication to the historic cemetery grounds.
With her new LP IS THIS THE END? out now, the alt-pop songwriter shares the perfect soundtrack to late-summer rooftop views.
Heaven Schmitt shares moments from recent sets in London, LA and beyond, both with Grumpy and as a member of Zach Bryan’s band.
Andrea Tirone and Roberto Conigliaro share a DJ set charting their love of Italo disco ahead of their set in San Diego this weekend.
Inspired by ’70s pop music, the single lands ahead of Shana Halligan’s new album The One.
Plus portraits and live scenes with Geese, Violet Grohl, Santigold, Coheed and Cambria, and more from Piedmont Park in Atlanta.
Plus backstage shots with Glixen, Chat Pile, Joey Valence & Brae, Melt-Banana, Foxy Shazam, and Show Me the Body.
Patti Smith, Morrissey, Pixies, Tricky, Glixen, Chat Pile, Pierce the Veil, William Shatner, and a mess of mud, waterlogged boots, and running eyeliner from Douglass Park in Chicago.
Ahead of her current North American tour, the songwriter played “Lady Los Angeles” from her new Ego Trip EP along with her 2023 single “Skippin’ Down the Sidewalk.”
The rising pop provocateur brought The Red Bottoms Tour to New York for two nights.
Behind-the-scenes shots of the casts and crew of The Last Photograph, Sunburn, Yaga, and other films and series featured at the annual fest in Toronto.
The alt-pop songwriter kicked off the second leg of her Loveland tour this weekend in Indianapolis.
Before she hits the road again in October, the alt-folk songwriter shares a tour diary from five days of shows between Lawrence and Nashville.
The songwriter plays the unreleased Observing Chaos album opener “clementine” along with the single “junebug!” at Bates Nursery.
The Forever Is a Feeling era came to a close with a memorable night backed by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.
Arlo Parks, The Garden, Gurriers, Gibby Haynes’ Butthole Surfer Mania, and other sights and sounds from the annual Austin psych (and beyond) fest.
