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
Sprints, Taking Back Sunday, Pixel Grip, Sum 41, and more backstage shots from Chicago’s Douglass Park.
Zach Hurd plays “Setting Free” from his new LP Rivers in Lands End park, overlooking the Golden Gate strait between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay.
Ahead of the annual San Francisco festival this weekend, the event’s curator spins tracks from a few of this year’s biggest draws, including Jamie xx, Justice, and Shygirl.
Kneecap in New York, NY / photo by Dutch Doscher
The Irish rap trio performed their biggest US show yet in New York this week.
The track closes out Blair Howerton’s project’s second LP Wish on the Bone, which is out now via Fire Talk.
PJ Harvey at Terminal 5 in New York, NY / photo by Dutch Doscher
The alt-rock icon is in the midst of a North American tour suppporting 2023’s I Inside the Old Year Dying LP.
The recently reunited Brazilian dance-punk quartet will be playing their last US show “for a long while.”
Matthew Caws gives an acoustic performance of their single “In Front of Me Now” from new LP Moon Mirror and “Come Get Me” from 2020’s Never Not Together.
The inaugural event at LA’s Belasco will also feature Olivia Jean, The Paranoyds, ADULT., Babe Haven, the magic of Zabrecky, and others on November 23.
The Tulsa-based trio’s second LP Talker is out this week via Bright Antenna Records.
With the band’s 32-stop US run supporting their self-titled record kicking off next week, Brett Torrence shouts out the hand-picked local openers that just barely missed the cut in each city.
Clairo hosted a five-night residency at the relatively intimate LA venue before embarking on her Charm world tour.
With his seventh album Dreamweaver landing this week, the Danish dream-pop composer shares his itinerary for an ideal day in his hometown.
Behind-the-scenes shots from the annual festival in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina.
JPEGMAFIA, Snail Mail, MJ Lenderman, Wednesday, BADBADNOTGOOD, and more from the annual three-day festival in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina.
Gep Repasky performs a solo rendition of the unreleased track “Erase All the B’s” from the band’s forthcoming LP Everything Matters, Everything’s Fire.
The recent FLOOD digital cover stars are in the midst of an extensive world tour in support of their new album X’s.
The British duo spins tracks by The Dare, Yeasayer, Sabrina Carpenter, and more in the midst of their North American tour supporting their upcoming self-titled debut EP.
Portraits and live shots from Seattle’s annual music and arts festival.
Dispatches from the Swedish group’s summer tour of Europe and the UK, which wrapped up last month.
