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.
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Handwritten note when Oscar de la Renta died 2014
The legendary fashion designer has died at age 82.
Keanu’s “proof” photo from 2014 Reddit AMA
Now that Reddit’s “Ask Me Anything” series has launched into a certifiably powerful tool for any celebrity looking to do…
2014. Press photo of The Black Keys by Danny Clinch.
With a new album out earlier this year and a fall tour gearing up, The Black Keys are on top…
Screenshot from Thurston Moore’s “Speak To the Wild” music video
In anticipation of this week’s release of The Best Day, Thurston Moore’s first solo release since the dissolution of Sonic…
Michael Robert Williams Photography. www.michaelwilliams.co.uk
For the latest in their Chasing The Sun series, Oasis recently rereleased one of their greatest albums, (What’s the Story)…
Shepard Fairey Poster for George cropped header
Pop-culture artist icon Shepard Fairey has announced the creation of two limited-edition art prints of George Harrison, in honor of…
Michael Keaton as “Riggan” in BIRDMAN. Photo by Atsushi Nishijima. Copyright © 2014 Twentieth Century Fox.
In Alejandro González Iñárritu’s new cinematic masterpiece Birdman, Michael Keaton stars as a fictionalized version of himself—an aging former comic-book movie star—struggling…
Introducing the R&B duo’s new album with a one-of-a-kind audio/visual experience.
If you were one of the many (many) people that thought that the 2013 film Jobs, starring Ashton Kutcher as…
1970s HBO logo + tagline
In a move that signals much more trouble ahead for subscription cable companies, HBO revealed today that they are unveiling…
Viet Cong / 2014 / credit: Colin Way
Following the release of their attention-grabbing debut EP Cassette earlier this year, Viet Cong have announced their first proper album,…
Marvel Civil War header
In an announcement that carries with it huge implications for the future of the Marvel Universe, Variety laid out new…
The ever-present movement towards’90s nostalgia has found yet another artifact of decades past to revive. Myst, the classic, massively successful computer…
“Manhattan” title card
As Deadline reports, Manhattan, WGN America’s impressive and addictive 1940s historical drama, has been renewed for a second season. Set in…
LFO, “Frequencies” cover (cropped)
Earlier this week, Mark Bell—the acid house trailblazer and influential producer—died from complications due to surgery, as was announced by…
Colin Jost, Michael Che, and Stefon / Saturday Night Live 2014
This weekend, Saturday Night Live broadcast its third episode of the season by bringing back beloved cast member Bill Hader to…
More than 23 years after starring in the opening scene of his indie-classic Slacker, Richard Linklater is back in front…
Not so fast, NBC! Plans to revive Say Anything may be thwarted by the film’s own director, if he has any…say…in it. UPDATE: It was, he does.
4-8-3-8-2-8-1 Broad City titles
While Broad City‘s second season doesn’t premiere until January of 2015, that hasn’t meant that Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, creators and…
Austin City Limits 2014 October 3–5 Zilker Park Austin, Texas With the 2014 festival season slowly coming to a close, Austin City…
