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.
Ezra Collective, Here Because of Hope
The UK jazz quintet are determined to heal while acknowledging pain on their soulful fourth LP of deeply jubilant, genre-bending, and compassionate odes to the enduring power of hope.
Bloc Party, Anatomy of a Brief Romance
Chronicling the rise and fall of a year-long fling, the influential UK indie rockers’ seventh album feels like a scattered afterthought more than an important part of the band’s journey.
Alabama Shakes, I Must Be Dreaming
The soulful rock trio sound like no time has passed at all after a decade-long break between studio records as they reignite their chemistry as a blockbuster unit.
FLOOD Staff
Maria Crawford plays an acoustic version of “Body” on a gloomy day in NYC.
The English songwriter brings us along for her Cruel World release-day set on the Gobi stage of the Empire Polo Club grounds.
Ryan Kaiser spins tracks by Blondie, The Meters, Half Japanese, and more after releasing his latest record, Simpleton, last week.
Scenes from Austin and San Antonio as the LA-based songwriter continues her US tour with The Happy Fits.
The Italian dance duo takes us behind the scenes of their first weekend in the desert playing at the Sonora tent.
Nine Inch Noize, PinkPantheress, Geese, Ethel Cain, Jack White, Die Spitz, and much more from the 25th edition of the annual festival on the Empire Polo Club grounds.
The Brooklyn-based artist plays “Water-Lily Bloom” from her newly released album STORIES.
The songwriter was joined by her partner Christian Lee Hutson in Brooklyn over the weekend for an intimate set teasing her forthcoming record Maitreya Corso.
This year’s fest will feature performances from The Strokes, The xx, FKA twigs, Nine Inch Noize, Ethel Cain, Geese, Turnstile, and dozens more.
The LA-based songwriter plays “Story’s End” from her first new album in seven years on the roof of her garage.
Jack Whitescarver debuted his band’s experimental noise-rock record Amiture Music at Bed-Stuy’s unconventional new palazzo-brownstone venue.
The “Body High Tour” in support of 2025’s EUSEXUA and EUSEXUA Afterglow albums hit Seattle this past week.
The British pop star brought her “This Tour May Contain New Music” North American run to Seattle this week.
Joyce Manor’s I Used to Go to This Bar tour stop in Chicago also featured support from Combat and Teen Mortgage.
The Tennessean songwriter teases her new album Face the Feeling with a performance of the recent single at Club Roar Studios.
The slacker-country rockers brought songs from Bleeds and beyond to the Minneapolis venue last week.
Jimmy Chauveau and Jon Hembrey play their 2016 hit “Spirits” and “Skin of My Teeth” from their new Burning Bridges Into Dust EP on a sunny hillside while touring the Pacific Northwest.
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Father John Misty, flipturn, Gelli Haha, Blondshell, hemlocke springs, Haute & Freddy, and more from downtown Boise’s sprawling music and arts fest.
The Swedish garage rock icons brought their The Hives Forever Forever The Hives tour to Chicago this past week.
The electro-pop trio celebrate the release of their fifth album Everything Glows with a playlist featuring Beach House, Robyn, The Radio Dept., and more.
