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.
Olivia Rodrigo, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love
Teetering between the influences of ’80s new wave and ’90s alt-rock, the pop star’s third album is a journey from jubilant lovesickness to a fatalistic collapse into romantic decay.
Goose, Big Modern!
At once their most even-keeled and explosively hook-crowded album yet, the jam-grinding ensemble’s latest is a stretch toward something uniquely slick and end-timey.
Kelsey Lu, So Help Me God
On their second LP, Lu taps Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman to co-produce a fascinating tapestry of pop, R&B, electronica, classical, folk, and everything avant-garde in between.
FLOOD Staff
The post-rock groovers play “Un Disparo al Corazón” from their new album Under the Moon in front of an epic backdrop of desert and sandstone.
Getting ready before the set
A behind-the-scenes glimpse of the Southern indie rock band’s time at the desert fest.
The Canadian indie-electro vets celebrated the release of their 10th album Romanticize the Dive with a roller disco night in Brooklyn.
Ryan Kaiser performs two songs from his new LP Simpleton at his home studio in LA.
The Gelliverse landed in Chicago this past weekend with support from Big Sis.
The songwriter plays an acoustic version of “shape of my heart” from his recently released LP up above.
All proceeds will support our FLOOD/Anthemic family member’s fight against stage-four pancreatic cancer.
Returning earlier this month with his first solo album in a decade, the electroclash artist spins a selection of overlooked tracks from his own discography.
The LA dream-pop duo documents their Coachella debut on the Sonora stage.
The frequent collaborators are in the midst of a North American co-headlining tour.
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.
