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.
Holy Fuck, Event Beat
The Canadian band’s sixth collection of percussion-driven, electronically augmented art-rock walks a fascinating tightrope between hard-hitting noise and grooving synth-funk.
Dälek, Brilliance of a Falling Moon
Just as the industrial hip-hop stalwarts have never been tourists within the genre, Will Brooks’ lyrical focus on class war and normalized tragedy remains steadfast on the project’s tenth LP.
Digital Underground, Sex Packets [35th Anniversary Edition]
This double LP celebrates the adventurous 1990 debut from the freaks of the industry by offering rare remixes and other unreleased tracks from the era packaged with a 3D gatefold.
FLOOD Staff
2014 Aphex Twin press photo for “Syro”
Richard D. James, better known as Aphex Twin, has emerged from musical obscurity after thirteen years of mostly silence. The…
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…
