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.
Caroline Rose, Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall
Blending synthpop, alt-country, and punk, the songwriter’s surrealist vision of American suburbia in 2026 is fueled by tracks that rip and soak in the moments they depict.
Sour Widows, Sigil
The Bay Area duo confronts grief and cruelty while making space for necessary indulgence on their second LP, with producer Melina Duterte pushing them toward bolder arrangements.
Grumpy, Unfindable Ring
After a pair of EPs opened the door to shapeshifting unpredictability, Heaven Schmitt’s second LP leans into an emotive, purposefully fragmented sound that remains impossible to pin down.
FLOOD Staff
Behind-the-scenes shots of the casts and crew of The Last Photograph, Sunburn, Yaga, and other films and series featured at the annual fest in Toronto.
The alt-pop songwriter kicked off the second leg of her Loveland tour this weekend in Indianapolis.
Before she hits the road again in October, the alt-folk songwriter shares a tour diary from five days of shows between Lawrence and Nashville.
The songwriter plays the unreleased Observing Chaos album opener “clementine” along with the single “junebug!” at Bates Nursery.
The Forever Is a Feeling era came to a close with a memorable night backed by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.
Arlo Parks, The Garden, Gurriers, Gibby Haynes’ Butthole Surfer Mania, and other sights and sounds from the annual Austin psych (and beyond) fest.
Plus backstage shots with Sudan Archives, Sextile, Goldie Boutilier, Pixel Grip, Paw Paw Rod, and Silvana Estrada.
Bikini Kill, Lucy Dacus, De La Soul, Sudan Archives, Orville Peck, and more sights, sounds, and wrestling from under the Space Needle in Seattle.
The avant-punk rockers were joined by bar italia, Her New Knife, and plenty of clowns at their hometown stop of their Bootleg tour.
The Austin psych-cumbia trio played a hometown show last week to celebrate their Dan Auerbach–produced debut.
The hip-hop duo are bumping Clipse, Slayyyter, The Garden, and more before taking the stage this weekend in Seattle.
Fontaines D.C.
Sombr, Geese, Adéla, Wisp, Kneecap, bar italia, Holly Humberstone, and many more scenes from the iconic UK festival.
The sludge-metal band takes us to their favorite “sorta shitty” thrift stores, “comfortably shittable” coffee shop bathrooms, and more in OKC before dropping their latest LP, Who Loves the Sun.
The indie-folk songwriter plays “Promise” from her latest LP You Are the Spring! in a park in NYC.
With her Margo Price co-produced debut solo album dropping this Friday, Franklin plays “A Heathen’s Hymn” and “I Got a Lover” in her mother’s backyard in Texas.
From relaxing at the beach in Malibu to crate digging at Amoeba Hollywood, the songwriter shares how she spends an ideal day in Los Angeles.
The costumed math-rockers played two nights at the LA venue in the midst of their mostly sold-out world tour.
Austin McCutchen shares a photo diary from the two weeks the Foxing offshoot recently spent with Lucy Dacus on her North American tour.
Set up between Marfa and Alpine, the guitarist plays “Cold Open” and “Big Fish” from his new solo album Thieves, out now via Strolling Bones.
The dream pop outfit takes us to their favorite breweries, ramen spots, ren faires, and more between St. Paul and Minneapolis.
