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.
Anna Calvi, Is This All There Is?
The British songwriter returns with a four-song EP defined by theatrical arrangements and an actorish guest list featuring Iggy Pop, Laurie Anderson, Perfume Genius, and Matt Berninger.
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.
FLOOD Staff
Hundred Waters performs live in 2014 at The Earl in Atlanta, Georgia / photo by Max Sweeney
Photos by Max Sweeney
This summer, Merge Records will celebrate their silver anniversary, and no, not with flatware. From July 28 through August 9,…
2014. Spoon press photo for “They Want My Soul” by Tom Hines.
Spoon has done it again, debuting yet another powerhouse preview of their upcoming album They Want My Soul. We’ve already…
Fifty years ago, on July 6, 1964, crowds of teenagers across the UK poured into movie theaters to see the…
The influential blues and soul musician has died at age 70.
A Sunny Day In Glasgow shared their new video for their Sea When Absenttrack, “In Love With Useless (The Timeless Geometry…
2014. Cloud Boat press photo by Simon Lesley
Cloud Boat, the London electronic duo of Sam Ricketts and Tom Clarke, have released a few singles in the lead-up…
This morning, Pink Mountaintops debuted the video for their latest single, “The Second Summer of Love,” off of their fourth…
2014 press photo of Tokyo Police Club. Photo by Andrew Strapp.
Tokyo Police Club’s “Hot Tonight” is one breezy summer jam fit for coasting along the highway with friends. Now the…
2014 press photo of Karen O. Photo by Barney Clay.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ frontwoman, Karen O, has collected some personal songs from 2006 and 2007, for what she calls her…
Sam Smith has publicly acknowledged his love of ’80s and ’90s soul singers, like Chaka Khan, Whitney Houston, and Luther…
“Two Weeks” encapsulates the allure of a rare, exotic bird—colorful, attractive, and unattainable.
Shabazz Palaces / 2014 / credit: Patrick O’Brien-Smith
Seattle-based hip-hop collective Shabazz Palaces have shared the second single from their upcoming album and it’s a bass-heavy, new black wave…
2014 press photo of Julian Casablancas + The Voidz by Colin Lane
The debut album from Julian Casablancas + The Voidz, Tyranny is set to drop on September 23 via Casablancas’s own Cult Records,…
Life Is Beautiful, the inspiring social platform that launched with a signature festival that brings together various forms of art…
Join us for a summer kickoff party with Best Coast (DJ Set) and Moonsville Collective.
A section of the “Wish I Was Here” film poster
The last time The Shins were featured in a Zach Braff film, two of their most memorable songs (“New Slang,”…
With J.J. Abram’s Episode VII underway, Deadline reports that Lucasfilm is already eyeing Rian Johnson to write and direct Star Wars…
2014 promo photo for “Better Call Saul” with Bob Odenkirk from the AMC website
For those of you still mourning the loss of Breaking Bad, let your souls be soothed a bit by the news…
For the latest video from their excellent new album The Moon Rang Like A Bell, Hundred Waters uses the mystical imagery…
