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.
Various artists, Passages: Artists in Solidarity with Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers
These unheard tracks from Dirty Projectors, Daniel Lopatin, and more are hushed and raw, all crafted with the idea of evoking a sense of home to highlight those whose own are at risk.
HEALTH, Conflict DLC
The noise-rockers’ sixth LP is a full-on rush of nihilistic energy, a shattered disco ball serving as the perfect encapsulation of a world decimated by capitalistic greed at the expense of humanity.
Fucked Up, Year of the Goat
Made up of two nearly half-hour tracks, the hardcore experimentalists’ latest is artistically commendable and consistently intriguing, even if it tends to test the listener’s patience.
Kevin Crandall
The engineer and producer hops back on the mic for an extended ode to Wu-Tang Clan, the group that’s fueled her passion for hip-hop since childhood.
The emcee formerly known as Pink Navel talks rebranding with their debut project under the more autobiographical moniker, There Was a Wind, but No Chime.
His second EP of 2025 sees the artist lean into his writing capabilities over addictive indie-rock melodies to reflect on the resilience that’s carried him through the last few tumultuous years.
With her new MIDNIGHT EP out now, the producer tells us about her formative experiences at Low End Theory, her ideal slumber party, and more.
Following a hiatus from recording, this fourth LP is a journey through the beauty and messiness of relationships that have colored the past five years of Taylor’s musical hibernation.
The track will close out the Savannah-based alt-rap artist’s Buried Out Back EP, which drops in full tomorrow.
Leading with distortion and chaos, the Austin group’s debut is a 22-minute cataclysm of hardcore punk and harsh noise that distills the anti-capitalist ethos of their moniker.
The LA-based musician discusses getting weird on his latest project, art Pop * pop Art.
The LA-based artist’s most comprehensive foray into genre abolition yet is a whirlwind of artistic exploration that sees the songwriter coloring well outside of hip-hop’s lines.
Despite being incarcerated by the State of Ohio, the poet teamed up with the improvisational jazz artist for what is the first known live recording from a death row inmate.
The emcee’s third solo album blends house, hip-hop, and the East African sun to give listeners a deeply personal look at the journeyman rapper’s Eritrean-Ethiopian heritage.
Their debut collaboration stitches the poet/emcee’s potent oratory chops through the metal group’s free-form sounds to create an avant-garde epic concerning human rights, violence, and empire.
The Zambian-Canadian noise-rapper returns from a brief hiatus with an existentialist exploration of death, violence, and, ultimately, love, a textural letter to the downtrodden and the hopeless.
The Saba co-signed DMV rapper shares a boom-bap sermon to follow up his 2023 debut album Spleck.
Graham Jonson also provides some insight into the inspirations and processes that informed his upcoming album, I Heard That Noise.
An intoxicating blend of Y2K aesthetics and bubblegum pop, Black’s second album is a celebration of her musical evolution from internet laughing stock to hyperpop powerhouse.
Ahead of his new LP, we also press Will Wiesenfeld about being sampled by Charli XCX and the assessment that he’s getting “hotter and weirder” with every release.
The LA-based artist discusses the self-deprecation, imposter syndrome, and, ultimately, self-confidence of her debut album The Jester, which details her struggle to break into the music industry.
On his latest EP, the Detroit musician leans into his hip-hop roots while exploring what it means to love and resist over four quick-hit tracks enveloped by marijuana smoke.
Politically punk while sonically dance music, The B-52’s vocalist’s first solo record in nine years is a musically and thematically diverse scattershot of personal reflection and activism.
