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.
The Menzingers, Everything I Ever Saw
Rather than merely reveling in pop-punk nostalgia on their eighth LP, the Scranton band instead opts to reexamine moments from their past in sharper focus.
sundayclub, sundayclub
Largely defined by unease, disillusion, and melancholy, the Winnipeg dream-pop duo’s debut leans heavily on atmosphere yet rarely pushes beyond it.
Suki Waterhouse, Loveland
The pop star’s third record sounds like it was made by someone whose ideas are still in transition rather than by someone who’s reached the edenic destination alluded to in its title.
Hayden Merrick
From buzzy broncos feeble little horse to folk supergroup Bonny Light Horseman, there seems to be an increasing number of equine-named artists; we investigated this phenomenon.
Finn talks about The Price of Progress, the group’s new collection of distinctly modern fables, and continuing to grow as a band after 20 years.
Madeline Link finds hope in unlikely places on her warm, cranked-up second full-length.
The buzzy UK group’s debut EP showcases Jojo Orme’s dizzying vocal style, as well as the Rolodex of varied influences she mines to produce something wholly original.
On their second LP, the Midwesterners try on a host of different costumes, revealing multiple iterations of their malleable indie-rock sound.
The Philly-based five-piece encompasses the guitar-pop gamut, all the messy layers of human emotion, and a healthy dose of stars-and-stripes ephemera on their third LP.
In spite of characteristically good songwriting, the London-based post-Britpop group’s sophomore record wraps without any substantial revelations.
The sonic postcards and arcane references on the band’s tenth studio album are driven by a newfound curiosity, one that succeeds in stretching their best components farther than ever before.
Elizabeth Stokes discusses how the group’s new album Expert in a Dying Field was inspired in equal parts by the complexities of jazz and the harmonies of pop music.
With their sepia-toned debut LP 90 in November out now, the indie-pop quintet share a playlist of tracks they look back on fondly.
Ahead of Friday’s release day, Stu Hopkins also notes 5 albums the band “straight up ripped off” on their new LP.
With shows in 13 countries booked throughout the fall, it looks like the third iteration of indie rock’s enigmatic VIPs gets the honeymoon that never was.
The LA-based trio reshapes the aloof robotics of Kraftwerk and the auditory illusions of Melody’s Echo Chamber into their own unique voice on their second LP.
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Dehd, UV-TV, and more bands pushing rock music forward by pulling from the past.
Melody Prochet’s third LP is more contained than her previous album and more sophisticated than her spirited echo-pop debut.
The duo’s desperately anticipated self-titled debut elicits a too-cool-for-school demeanor and will appeal to any overthinking or underthinking post-millennial.
The Australian “power emo” trio use their latest LP to heal storm scars, allowing themselves a less purposeful indulgence that nevertheless resonates with the same immediacy
The latest from Glenn Donaldson’s melancholy outfit is a rewarding release in an increasingly saturated jangle-pop landscape.
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.
