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.
Lime Garden, Maybe Not Tonight
The cocktail of frustration, insecurity, and lust that courses through the Brighton quartet’s buzzing and adventurous second album mirrors the trajectory of an energetic night out.
MEMORIALS, All Clouds Bring Not Rain
The genre-hopping fifth LP from Verity Susman and Matthew Simms is more ornate and ambitious than their earlier material, though ultimately the whole is lesser than the sum of the parts.
Filth Is Eternal, Impossible World
Vibrant, dexterous, and unrelentingly compelling, the Seattle hardcore-punks’ fourth album sees them mature into a band adept at writing songs lasting more than two minutes.
FLOOD Staff
Twenty-five full-lengths that kept us going, one way or the other.
Ten compositions that changed our landscapes, big and small.
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.
