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, Red Xerox: Chicago Youth Beat 2020-2025
Spotlighting the diversity of Chicago’s underground scene, this comp is as much a symposium for genre-defying trailblazers as it is a no-skips playlists capturing the city’s budding youth-beat movement.
Cut Worms, Transmitter
Produced by Jeff Tweedy, Max Clarke’s fourth album tampers down the luster of past records, grounding aspects of the indie-folk songwriter’s music that once seemed impossibly pristine.
Kim Gordon, Play Me
Fully embracing the trashy SoundCloud-era internet aesthetic as she raps, sings, and shreds over industrial clatter, this is the sound of an artist who’s still inspired by the cutting edge at 72.
FLOOD Staff
Following the release of her third album, the LA-via-London alt-pop songwriter spins tunes by Dominic Fike, Clairo, FINNEAS, and more all week.
The songwriter played four nights at the Los Angeles venue.
Kash Doll, Lakeyah, Yung Gravy, Skilla Baby, and others performing at 18 free nonpartisan events aiming to increase voter turnout.
Sarah Walk plays through “The Truth,” the opening song from her newly released album When I Get Through, outside the studio space in her backyard.
Robert Alfons spins Autechre, Provoker, New Order, and more as he hits the road this week for a North American tour.
Backstage at Place Bell in Laval, QC, 9-16-24
Behind the scenes on the historic 22-city tour.
Dan Smith shares how podcasts, his dad’s old notebook, and, of course, caffeine helped fuel his latest project.
Backstage in Vegas with L.S. Dunes, Pierce the Veil, The Wonder Years, 3OH!3, and others.
Leading up to the release of her sophomore solo record, A Love You Cannot Shake, Pascal Stevenson takes us to some favorite spots in East LA, North Hollywood, and beyond.
Jimmy Eat World, Coheed and Cambria, The Used, Dashboard Confessional, and more from the 2000s nostalgia mall-punk fest in Las Vegas.
Emma Hardyman teases the release of her band’s new album Dear Divine with an acoustic performance of the yet-unreleased track “bashful lovers.”
The new wave, goth and post-punk fest returns May 17, 2025 with Madness, OMD, Blancmange, Garbage, Stereo MC’s, Alison Moyet, and the reunion of Aimee Mann’s ‘Til Tuesday.
With her new album Dotr out now, the electronic artist spins tracks by SOFI TUKKER, Fleetwood Mac, Four Tet, Goose, and more.
The FLOOD-sponsored event on October 24 at ACL Live is the result of a nationwide Community College Concert Competition to get out the vote.
The high-concept art-pop musician takes us behind the scenes of her recent hometown release show for Triple Fire in LA.
Taking place October 26 at The Echo, “Raise the Volume” will be co-sponsored by FLOOD.
Mannequin Pussy / photo by Daniel Cavazos
Plus backstage shots of St. Lucia, Cannons, Chaparelle, and others from the annual festival in Texas.
Jackie Mendez & the Steady 45’s, Boogaloo Assassins, Circle the Earth, and Monalisa will also play the event set for November 9 at LA State Historical Park.
Following the release of her fourth album PALACIO, the Colombian indie-pop songwriter kicks back with a chill day in the Mexican capital city.
The Austin psych-rockers prep for their Halloween Levitation fest slot with a performance of three new tracks from their yet-to-be-announced debut album.
