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.
@, Autosmile
The experimental duo coil psychedelic-folk introspection around prog-rock guitar flourishes across the dramatically pivoting tracklist of their acoustically oriented debut for 4AD.
Rachel Chinouriri, I Think I Spoke Too Soon
On her second album, the English artist pivots to clubbier sounds that both satisfy and sting as she suppresses loneliness with a fake smile and a polished dance-pop sheen.
Fontaines D.C., Dopamine Chamber
Opting for a synthetic architecture over the driving guitar language of earlier records, the Dublin band shatters their sonic frontier to reveal a grim catechism for hyper-processed hedonism.
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Nor’easter be damned: The show went on at Merriweather Post Pavilion with Remi Wolf, Slayyyter, Ethel Cain, Lola Young, and more.
Ahead of Dopamine Chamber, the band brought a 19-song set and a David Lynch dedication to the historic cemetery grounds.
With her new LP IS THIS THE END? out now, the alt-pop songwriter shares the perfect soundtrack to late-summer rooftop views.
Heaven Schmitt shares moments from recent sets in London, LA and beyond, both with Grumpy and as a member of Zach Bryan’s band.
Andrea Tirone and Roberto Conigliaro share a DJ set charting their love of Italo disco ahead of their set in San Diego this weekend.
Inspired by ’70s pop music, the single lands ahead of Shana Halligan’s new album The One.
Plus portraits and live scenes with Geese, Violet Grohl, Santigold, Coheed and Cambria, and more from Piedmont Park in Atlanta.
Plus backstage shots with Glixen, Chat Pile, Joey Valence & Brae, Melt-Banana, Foxy Shazam, and Show Me the Body.
Patti Smith, Morrissey, Pixies, Tricky, Glixen, Chat Pile, Pierce the Veil, William Shatner, and a mess of mud, waterlogged boots, and running eyeliner from Douglass Park in Chicago.
Ahead of her current North American tour, the songwriter played “Lady Los Angeles” from her new Ego Trip EP along with her 2023 single “Skippin’ Down the Sidewalk.”
The rising pop provocateur brought The Red Bottoms Tour to New York for two nights.
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.
