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.
U2, Carnaval de Luz
Crisp, memorable melodies and a bemused-by-it-all lyrical focus lift the Irish quartet’s 16th studio album above the rest of their 21st century’s gray pallor.
2hollis, Pirouette
The digicore artist seeks to fully place us in the intense present with a candy-colored, speaker-blowing pop album—one that happens to also be almost feverishly in love.
NØ MAN, Between the Sword and the Neck
The DC hardcore punks’ fourth album cuts like a knife as it demands that the genocide of the Palestinian people be choked into submission.
Hayden Merrick
From Green Day’s homage to “Catcher in the Rye” to Japanese Breakfast channeling Raymond Carver, here are some of the best tracks inspired by literature.
With a fondness for the usual jangling suspects, the band’s first release in 11 years is a cumulonimbus of reverby guitar-pop unconcerned with fitting in.
