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.
Anna Calvi, Is This All There Is?
The British songwriter returns with a four-song EP defined by theatrical arrangements and an actorish guest list featuring Iggy Pop, Laurie Anderson, Perfume Genius, and Matt Berninger.
Various artists, Red Xerox: Chicago Youth Beat 2020-2025
Spotlighting the diversity of Chicago’s underground scene, this comp is as much a symposium for genre-defying trailblazers as it is a no-skips playlists capturing the city’s budding youth-beat movement.
Cut Worms, Transmitter
Produced by Jeff Tweedy, Max Clarke’s fourth album tampers down the luster of past records, grounding aspects of the indie-folk songwriter’s music that once seemed impossibly pristine.
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Visit your mom.
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They’re almost worth trampling someone over.
The heartfelt track from last year’s “Some Kind of Champion” gets an equally heartfelt clip.
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Phantogram, Bleached, Diet Cig, Jagwar Ma, and more hold off the rain outside Austin.
Dance yourself clean.
But tomorrow.
Beach House / photo by Andy Sawyer
Rain wreaked a bit of havoc on the fest’s inaugural affair outside Austin, but it was an only-fitting dramatic backdrop for the likes of Explosions in the Sky, Beach House, and Thee Oh Sees.
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The collaborative debut from John Dufilho (The Apples in Stereo) and Brandon Carr (The Earlies) is out January 13 via Idol Records.
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Helping us nurse a mid-Lollapalooza hangover, the shoegaze band…took off their shoes, so to speak, for an acoustic set.
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Some parents dress their kids up like superheroes. Some dress their kids up like athletes. But Sadie and Arlo’s parents dress them up like their favorite album covers.
The band will release Shin on November 18.
Seaworthy at Ace Hotel New Orleans / photo by Rush Jagoe
Like a New Orleans hotel is only gonna have one bar.
Look out, #33.
Featuring cover stories on M.I.A. and Wu-Tang Clan on one side, and Tenacious D (in conversation with political cartoonist Rob Rogers) and Paul Dano on the other.
Featuring cover stories on M.I.A. and Wu-Tang Clan on one side, and Tenacious D (in conversation with political cartoonist Rob Rogers) and Paul Dano on the other.
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The “Mean What I Mean” singer plays the Smoothie King Center with Sia and Miguel on November 3.
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Featuring cover stories on Daveed Diggs and Angel Olsen.
ONE TIME USE ONLY Kate Bush 1978 Photo by Chris Moorhouse/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
“Before the Dawn” was compiled from her residency at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, and will be out December 2 via Concord/Fish People.
PAPA / photo by Dan Regan
From the band’s new album “Kick at the Dust.”
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The legendary rock photographer shares intimate shots of one of his greatest subjects.
