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.
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.
Kim Gordon, Play Me
Fully embracing the trashy SoundCloud-era internet aesthetic as she raps, sings, and shreds over industrial clatter, this is the sound of an artist who’s still inspired by the cutting edge at 72.
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2014 promotional photo for “Big Eyes” by Leah Gallo for the Weinstein Company
Stepping away from his usual cast and dreary color palette, director Tim Burton has completed a biopic about artists Walter and Margaret…
If you walked around the streets of London this summer, you may have noticed some colorful and whimsical benches perched…
Steven Ellison, a.k.a. Flying Lotus, is preparing to release his latest album, You’re Dead!, which is already promising to be an…
2014 Burton website screenshot of snowboarder
A new wardrobe for a new season.
2014 J. J. Abrams teases Millennium Falcon with Batmobile clip
Director J. J. Abrams releases what looks like Star Wars footage, but adds a touch of Batman to the mix.
Death From Above 1979 logo
Dance-punk duo Death From Above 1979 has a pretty sick logo worthy of wearing on your back. Well, now all…
The Breaking Bad actor immerses himself in the dramatic world of baseball to promote the postseason.
2014. Yoko Ono with Kids in front of the John Lennon Bus.
Yoko Ono helps to celebrate the bus tour’s residency in New York City
Earlier this year, the post-punk British band Eagulls put out a fantastic self-titled debut, which included the outstanding single “Nerve…
Hey, LA! Come and join us next Wednesday, September 17, as we throw down an awesome night of music with…
The legendary director portrays the history and cultural impact of the New York Review of Books over the last fifty years.
Björk courtesy of Wellhart One Little Indian
There’s no question that anything Björk is involved with is a whimsical spectacle. Her avant-garde costumes, theatrical performances, and ethereal…
screenshot from Death From Above 1979’s “Trainwreck 1979” music video
Music’s inspirational power—that spark your favorite band ignites in your soul—is limitless. In the first music video from Death From…
2014 Jeff Golbum on “Late Night with Seth Meyers”
Last night, your cool uncle Jeff Goldblum swung by Late Night with Seth Meyers to serenade a willing audience (who…
The tech giant revealed not just one, but three new products, and some major improvement features to go with them.
The punk band returns to NBC after being banned for nearly three decades.
Phantogram header from the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on 9/5/2014 / Photo by Alix Spence
Photos by Alix Spence
Behind the music and the songs of Nick Cave, there is a brilliant and fascinating man. 20,000 Days On Earth…
2014 press photo of Karen O. Photo by Barney Clay.
We’ve been waiting for Karen O to release Crush Songs for quite some time now. It’s her first solo album, featuring…
