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.
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.
The Notwist, News From Planet Zombie
This folksy, brassy new iteration of the German trio excels at melodies that yearn and churn with melancholy—yet still manages something celebratory.
Minnesota Artists United Against ICE, Melt ICE
This gigantic comp album featuring 110 Minnesotan artists raising funds for immigrant communities terrorized by ICE may also happen to be where you find your new favorite band.
Erin Hickey
But don’t expect it to abandon the Marvel formula.
The “Stoker” director returns with a complex, compelling (and carnal) genre tour.
Marvel’s Luke Cage
Netflix’s latest foray into the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a high point for both the streaming service and the MCU as a whole.
Simon Barrett and Adam Wingard’s sequel does right by the 1999 original, but doesn’t go much farther.
Suicide Squad photo / photo by Clay Enos / Warner Brothers
“Suicide Squad”‘s casting and budget can’t make up for a lack of story and emotional depth.
Ghostbusters promo still. Courtesy Sony Pictures
The issue of treading on hallowed ground aside, Paul Feig’s latest delivers exactly what it promises.
It’s not a Cap vs. Iron Man world after all.
Key and Peele “Keanu”
The first film offering from one of the best comedic duos of the past decade is a victim of its own format.
Everybody Wants Some
Richard Linklater comes home again.
Ethan Hawke “Born to Be Blue”
Robert Budreau’s biopic is a love story of a different kind.
Deadpool / photo courtesy Twentieth Century Fox
Director Tim Miller grounds dated violence and lowbrow humor in a thoroughly modern world.
Steve Carell in The Big Short
Adam McKay lightens dense subject matter with his comedic sensibilities.
Bryan Cranston in Trumbo
The screenwriter biopic continues the grand tradition of Tinseltown tooting its own horn but ditches the self-importance.
Spectre trailer screengrab
Mendes and Craig phone in the “Skyfall” follow-up.
Crimson Peak trailer screengrab
Guillermo del Toro’s gothic haunted house flick is more dead than alive.
Sicario trailer screengrab
Denis Villeneuve’s attempt to stay neutral hurts an otherwise great film.
2015. “The Visit” trailer
“The Visit” is M. Night Shyamalan’s best film in fifteen years.
The Man from UNCLE screen grab
Guy Ritchie’s adaptation of 1960s television show “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” falls flat.
Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel in “The End of the Tour”
“The End of the Tour” honors David Foster Wallace by making him feel like a real person.
Paul Rudd in Ant-Man
Low on action and high on exposition, Marvel’s Ant-Man is pretty much the antithesis of Avengers: Age of Ultron; tone-wise,…
