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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Dua Saleh, Of Earth & Wires
The Sudanese-American songwriter’s second album blends R&B and electronic pop with spoken-word poetry to create a tapestry of lush sounds and mythic language.
Kraftwerk, Radio-Activity [50th Anniversary Edition]
This re-release presents a band that’s palatably gleeful to have figured out their formula with an astonishingly cohesive and weirdly poppy picture of a Cold War–fogged world.
Towa Bird, Gentleman
The shred-bending guitarist is out for blood on her second LP as she channels femme-punk fury and four-on-the-floor disco beats into songs aiming to bust the heads of the pop patriarchy.
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
