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.
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Ezra Collective, Here Because of Hope
The UK jazz quintet are determined to heal while acknowledging pain on their soulful fourth LP of deeply jubilant, genre-bending, and compassionate odes to the enduring power of hope.
Bloc Party, Anatomy of a Brief Romance
Chronicling the rise and fall of a year-long fling, the influential UK indie rockers’ seventh album feels like a scattered afterthought more than an important part of the band’s journey.
Alabama Shakes, I Must Be Dreaming
The soulful rock trio sound like no time has passed at all after a decade-long break between studio records as they reignite their chemistry as a blockbuster unit.
Gerald Nesmith
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Essay
Meme Rap: An Off-Puttingly Weird Subgenre for Our Off-Puttingly Weird Times
Charting the rise and normalization of hip-hop’s online-era anti-music movement, a mirror image of the directionless, content-creation culture that produced it.
April 28, 2026
Film & TVLife After Cancellation
Life After Cancellation: “Black. White.”
Looking back on Ice Cube’s deeply inappropriate yet oddly prescient 2006 series in which two families swap races—which, believe it or not, only lasted six episodes.
April 11, 2024
Essay
Tha Crossroads: Hip-Hop and the For-Profit Revolution
Charting the genre’s trajectory from its radical political roots to the empty commodification of its present state over the past half-century.
March 19, 2024
