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.
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.
The Notwist, News From Planet Zombie
This folksy, brassy new iteration of the German trio excels at melodies that yearn and churn with melancholy—yet still manages something celebratory.
Minnesota Artists United Against ICE, Melt ICE
This gigantic comp album featuring 110 Minnesotan artists raising funds for immigrant communities terrorized by ICE may also happen to be where you find your new favorite band.
FLOOD Staff
The recent FLOOD cover star’s Forever Is a Feeling tour stopped in LA this week with MUNA’s Katie Gavin and jasmine.4.t.
Sponsored by FLOOD, the August 1 event in partnership with the LA Phil will blend music, video, dance, and spoken word to tell the story of LA.
Keanu Reeves never accepted the band’s invitation to play bass with them, but Tony Hawk showed up.
Live shots, portraits, and behind-the-scenes pics from the songwriter’s release show and signing for her third album, Bloodless.
The Dirty Projectors member plays “In a Dream It Could Happen” from her new solo album Goodbye Long Winter Shadow, out now via Last Gang.
Behind the scenes shots with Grouplove, Of Montreal, Wild Nothing, and more from the fest grounds at Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
TV on the Radio, Bloc Party, Empire of the Sun, and more from the nostalgia-heavy indie fest in Pasadena.
Before taking the stage this weekend in Pasadena in support of their new LP Mausoleum, the band will join us all week with a radio takeover.
FLOOD presented the band’s return to Los Angeles along with opener Sophie Hunter.
The English five-piece are in the midst of a North American tour supporting their third album, Cowards.
The New Mexico–based songwriter gives an acoustic performance of “Had To” from her newly released fifth album Want.
Michelle Zauner’s three-night run in Chicago featured opener Ginger Root.
On the heels of their new album Mortal Primetime, the NYC-based trio’s radio takeover features Sonic Youth, Hole, Nick Drake, and more.
Mt. Joy
Backstage shots with The Backseat Lovers, The War and Treaty, Medium Build, Goldie Boutilier, and others from the annual festival in North Charleston
The Dublin quintet brought their Romance tour to Nashville this week.
The Isaac Gale and Ryan Olson-directed film opens in Los Angeles on May 2 at the Nuart.
Ahead of the release of the pop-punk trio’s LP Big Symmetry tomorrow, they perform an acoustic version of the single in Jefferson Park.
The musical project of actor/songwriter Joe Keery stopped in Detroit this week in the midst of a North American tour supporting his latest album, The Crux.
The two-day fest returned to Riverfront Park in North Charleston this past weekend.
The Aussie indie rockers play their singles “All the Noise” and “How to Kill Houseplants” from the forthcoming If That Makes Sense LP.
