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.
Bleachers, Everyone for Ten Minutes
The bigness that Jack Antonoff holds on his band’s latest album is dedicated to the human spirit and the hope of something better—and rockier—for our future.
Lowertown, Ugly Duckling Union
The NYC duo return to their DIY roots on their creatively unbridled second LP, turning a highly unusual concept into something rather heartfelt and wonkily majestic.
Hammock, The Second Coming Was a Moonrise
The Nashville veterans blend the understated melancholia of dream pop with the more dramatic scale of post-rock on their latest album with a nice push-and-pull effect.
FLOOD Staff
Our latest print edition features Miguel in conversation with Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova, and an in-depth chat with artist Sage Vaughn.
Eighteen food and drink recipes straight from the stars of the fest’s fourth year.
Featuring in-depth stories on Hundred Waters, Buff Monster, Vince Staples, and Demetri Martin, in addition to our picks and tips for this year’s festival slate.
photo by Santos Social Club
Belle and Sebastian, Fleet Foxes, Kaytranada, and more play in the Bay.
Party at the lake house.
Sylvan Esso at FLOODfest Chicago 2017 / photo by Carlo Cavaluzzi
Sylvan Esso, Grace Mitchell, Gus alt-J, and Flint Eastwood helped a massive crowd ball to the break of dawn.
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.
