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.
Various artists, Passages: Artists in Solidarity with Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers
These unheard tracks from Dirty Projectors, Daniel Lopatin, and more are hushed and raw, all crafted with the idea of evoking a sense of home to highlight those whose own are at risk.
HEALTH, Conflict DLC
The noise-rockers’ sixth LP is a full-on rush of nihilistic energy, a shattered disco ball serving as the perfect encapsulation of a world decimated by capitalistic greed at the expense of humanity.
Fucked Up, Year of the Goat
Made up of two nearly half-hour tracks, the hardcore experimentalists’ latest is artistically commendable and consistently intriguing, even if it tends to test the listener’s patience.
FLOOD Staff
The UK art-punks document their brief set of dates in Asia to close out a year of touring their second LP, O Monolith.
The electro-rock four-piece play through the single from their forthcoming debut album Effigy in a beer garden in Hackney.
The veteran booking agent spins tracks by Nick Hakim, Stephen Sanchez, Arooj Aftab, and more.
Subtitled “Women in Rock Shaping Feminism,” Katherine Yeske Taylor’s book is out January 16 via Backbeat Books.
Bailey Crone plays through the new single with her band before they head to SXSW in March.
The band kicks off 2024 for us with a takeover featuring Drab Majesty, Nation of Language, Cocteau Twins, and more.
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.
