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.
This Is Lorelei, Holo Boy
Water From Your Eyes’ Nate Amos digs into his back catalog of nearly 70 releases shared over the last 12 years, revealing his humble beginnings and the seeds of last year’s breakout LP.
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here 50
This box set repackages the languid yet damaged follow-up to the band’s breakout success, with its true star being the massive-sounding bootleg of a 1975 live show at LA’s Sports Arena.
Blur, The Great Escape [30th Anniversary Edition]
Packed with era-appropriate B-sides, this release celebrates the Britpop quartet in their last gasp of opulent orchestration as they moved into lonely disillusionment and reserved distance.
FLOOD Staff
The Manchester-based dance-punk collective shares photo highlights from their brief set of December dates here in the US.
Joined by vocalist Sarah Rossy and guitarist Jack Broza, the bassist plays the track “I’ll Ask Anyway” from her debut record Outsider, Outlier on a sunny day in New York City.
40 of our favorite live shots from the year including boygenius, Arctic Monkeys, Weyes Blood, The Cure, Kendrick Lamar, Turnstile, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and more.
10 movies that feel bolder with every repeat viewing.
10 series that continued to push the medium forward.
Peggy Gou
From Peggy Gou and OPN to Yard Act and Arlo Parks, here are the songs we couldn’t stop spinning over the past 12 months.
From bold and cathartic statements of newfound independence to unapologetic anthems for a one-weekend stand, here are the 10 most inventive tracks we heard in 2023.
The special programming of eclectic holiday hits spanning indie, punk, hip-hop, and beyond kicks off this Sunday, December 17, and runs through the rest of the year only on FLOOD FM.
Graphic: Jerome Curchod Photos: Zachary Gray, Jack Grange, Shervin Lainez, Steve Gullick, Gunner Stahl, Toby Leveson
From rap to pop to R&B to punk, this year was defined by a lack of homogeneity.
The NYC-based songwriter gives an evening performance of “Tree” from his newly released sophomore LP Dog.
Michael Robert Williams Photography. www.michaelwilliams.co.uk
In honor of the San Francisco live music institution, Aaron Axelsen will be spinning two consecutive hours of Britpop hits released between 1995 and 2008 three times daily.
The songwriter strums through “Tonic” from his recent LP No Fixed Point in Space, out now via Bella Union.
The Of Monsters and Men offshoot performs “Every Kind of L” and “EndUp” with a 16-piece string orchestra for our special series shot around the city’s annual Øya Festival.
The Exile in Guyville 30th anniversary tour landed at the historic Nashville venue this week.
Despite canceling the remainder of the tour, Ms. Hill and the Fugees brought the Miseducation 25th Anniversary show to the City of Brotherly Love this week.
The OKC-based indie rockers play through “Old Town” from their latest LP Cuatro, out now via Thirty Tigers.
With their latest LP Formentera II out now, Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw spin favorites from their indie-rock contemporaries.
The British avant-prog trio brought their “Eras Tour” to Los Angeles last week.
After releasing their debut album Iridescence last Friday, Brittany Campbell and Candace Quarrels play through “Find Me” and “Boundaries” in Highland Park.
Tears for Fears, Soft Cell, The Human League, The B-52’s, and more from the inaugural new wave and goth festival in Huntington Beach, CA.
