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.
Arlo Parks, Ambiguous Desire
Vulnerability is baked into the heartbeat of the British songwriter’s third album with an aching groove lifted to new levels courtesy of the ecstasy of dance music.
José González, Against the Dying of the Light
With his fifth album, the Swedish songwriter considers his deepest of existential queries while maintaining the effervescent, seductive sound that’s the strongest through line in his career.
Courtney Barnett, Creature of Habit
Still flatliningly deadpan, the Australian songwriter uses the back-and-forth fear of the new as a start point for further depth-diving and confession on her fourth solo album.
FLOOD Staff
With so many arts and culture festivals popping up around the country, it’s hard to distinguish which weekend offerings are…
Writer-director-actress Miranda July doesn’t believe technological communication should replace human interaction, but she also knows that phones are something we…
From left to right: Hannah Murray as Cassie, Olly Alexander as James and Emily Browning as Eve in Stuart Murdoch’s…
After decades of writing songs filled with visual imagery, Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch has finally turned his storytelling talents…
2014. The New Pornographers, “Brill Bruisers” album art
Their sixth full-length Brill Bruisers takes another wild stab at salvaging the vigor present during the group’s invincible stretch from 2000’s Mass Romantic to 2005’s outright classic Twin Cinema.
In the third installment of their brand-new music series, Urban Outfitters Live presented Vancouver natives, and all around badasses, White Lung.
Future Islands performing at the Fonda Theatre in Hollywood on 8/21/2014/ Photo by Alix Spence
Samuel T. Herring and Future Islands do what they do best: make you dance.
2014. “Nightcrawler” trailer.
No, this is not a Marvel movie, but that doesn’t make this Nightcrawler any less interesting and action-packed. There’s a…
2013. Darkside press photo by Tim Jones.
Multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington and electronic musician Nicolas Jaar have announced an end to their collaboration project Darkside, posting on Facebook:…
Making his directorial debut, Charlie McDowell (the son of Malcom McDowell and Mary Steenburgen) has brought us something magical with…
Outside Lands Festival 2014 August 8–10 Golden Gate Park San Francisco, California Taking place right in the heat of summer, crowds took…
Blood Orange [header] at Lollapalooza 2014 / Photo by Misha Vladimirskiy
Behind-the-scenes at Lollapalooza 2014 with Blood Orange, Jungle, Temples, Chromeo, London Grammar, and more. Photos by Misha Vladimirskiy.
Second by Bryan Lee O’Malley
If you’re one of those who wore out your copies of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s brilliant Scott Pilgrim series (and perhaps…
Featuring cover stories on St. Vincent and Arcade Fire.
2014 promo photo for Third Man Publishing wing
Jack White’s Third Man Records is merging the worlds of music and literature by opening a new publishing wing. To…
It’s been ten years, I repeat ten years, since Tim and Eric did a live show tour, so it’s about…
2014. Beck press photo by Peter Hapak.
At the end of 2012, twenty of Beck’s original compositions were released solely as a stunning set of sheet music,…
2014. “Seinfeld” emojis.
Continue your conversations about nothing with these Seinfeld emojis that could (potentially, maybe) be coming to your phone. The popular…
2014. “Starred Up” press photo
Coming out of this year’s film festival circuit, Starred Up has started picking up more than a bit of buzz…
