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.
HEALTH, Conflict DLC
The noise-rockers’ sixth LP is a full-on rush of nihilistic energy, a shattered disco ball serving as the perfect encapsulation of a world decimated by capitalistic greed at the expense of humanity.
Fucked Up, Year of the Goat
Made up of two nearly half-hour tracks, the hardcore experimentalists’ latest is artistically commendable and consistently intriguing, even if it tends to test the listener’s patience.
This Is Lorelei, Holo Boy
Water From Your Eyes’ Nate Amos digs into his back catalog of nearly 70 releases shared over the last 12 years, revealing his humble beginnings and the seeds of last year’s breakout LP.
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The drink menu for your “Twin Peaks” viewing parties is now finalized.
The filmmaker—and expert in all things Beastie Boys—gives us an inside look at the music video career of MCA’s Swiss uncle, who was definitely a real person.
Your festival food experience doesn’t have to be limited to the confines of the festival itself.
Tame Impala / photo by Joyce Jude
Setting sail to Randall’s Island.
photo by James Richards IV
Still plenty of sand in the hourglass.
Plus, enter to win a trip to Chicago to take in the whole weekend.
The crowd at FYF Fest / photo by Rozette Rago
“Missy…[checks notes]…Elliott?”
James Sunderland and Brett Hite reveal the songwriting bonafides that power their synth-pop jams.
We’re halfway there.
For International Albinism Awareness Day, the “White African Power” producer shares how music gave a forgotten people a sense of self.
June gloom be damned, we got summer started on a Hollywood rooftop.
Throwing it back to a Slab Session so nice we premiered it twice.
The erstwhile folk-rockers get knotty.
photo by David Iskra
Hope comes to SF.
photo by Conor Collins
Wanna see movies of your dreams? Look no further.
The head chef at Reykjavik’s DILL is our guide in the latest episode of our video series touring the cities that inspire the world.
(Photo by Todd Cooper / @toddcooper)
You may wanna float right into the weekend on this one.
The Beastie Boys filming the “Pass the Mic” video / photo courtesy of Mario Caldato Jr.
Twenty-five years later, “Check Your Head”‘s influence still looms large.
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In addition to a cover story on “Silicon Valley”’s Thomas Middleditch, our latest print issue also features an extended celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Beastie Boys’ “Check Your Head.”
From Radiohead’s unforeseen crowd-pleasing to “Kung Fu” Kenny’s cinematic themes
