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
The songwriter and producer plays “Still Blue” and “Charcoal Juice” from his forthcoming debut album, I know trash people who keep the oceans clean.
The Brooklyn trio played their first gig of 2026 in Kansas City this past weekend.
Recorded in recognition of last January’s LA wildfires, Jeffrey Paradise spins a handful of tracks including his collaboration with Satin Jackets featured on our new Gimme Shelter benefit comp.
Fcukers
From Fcukers and Gorillaz to Austra and Tokyo Tea Room, here are the songs we couldn’t stop spinning over the past 12 months.
50 incredible live moments that defined our year in music, including Doechii, Turnstile, David Byrne, Clairo, Wet Leg, Rilo Kiley, Charli XCX, My Chemical Romance, Geese, and many more.
40 unforgettable live moments featured on FLOOD over the last 10 years.
Before closing out their tour in LA in February, the Swedish rockers are sending a robot ambassador to Inglewood today in order to assist the YMCA in making food deliveries.
For our tenth anniversary, we asked Lucy Dacus, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Amyl and the Sniffers’ Amy Taylor, Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor, Indigo De Souza, OMD’s Andy McCluskey, Spoon’s Britt Daniel, Phantogram, Blondshell, and more to write about the records that inspired them the most from 2015 to 2025.
10 shows that made us a little bit more optimistic about the future of streaming.
The special programming of eclectic holiday tunes spanning indie, punk, soul, electronic, hip-hop, and beyond, new and old, runs through the rest of the year.
The Philly funk-soul outfit braves the cold weather with a stripped-down performance of their single “SUNSHINE” from earlier this year.
The year’s 10 best movies about devastation and hope.
The recent FLOOD cover stars wrapped up their The Clearing tour in Ireland last night.
Graphic: Jerome Curchod Photos: Yanran Xion, Julian Song, Skylar Watkins, Graham Tolbert
10 musical highlights setting the stage for the second half of the decade.
Graphic: Jerome Curchod Photos: Mark Sommerfield, Noah Dillon, Wilson Lee, Zachary Gray
50 records that largely do away with any sense of boundaries in sound or feeling.
Art by Shepard Fairey. Amoeba photo by Preston Groff
The event is set for December 16 in LA.
After releasing her debut album back in October, the LA-based songwriter shares some favorite tunes by Radiohead, Dora Jar, Dido, and more.
Celebrating a decade of FLOOD with Mac DeMarco, Lord Huron, Wolf Alice, Norman Reedus, The Zombies, Nation of Language, Bootsy Collins, Fred Armisen, and many more.
Backed by a full band, the songwriter plays “Touching You” and “Cicadas” from her 1.1 EP on a rooftop.
De Souza played her hometown of Asheville at the beginning of November with Mothé opening.
