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.
Butthole Surfers, After the Astronaut
The noise rockers’ long-shelved follow-up to Electriclarryland arrives as a fascinating artifact of a band caught between self-sabotage and the lure of commercial pop accessibility.
Sierra Spirit, Rodeo Clown
On her latest EP, the Native songwriter blends personal and ancestral histories with soft-plucked steel string and powwow drumming to create a shimmering portrait of her heritage.
Warning, Rituals of Shame
The pummeling hypnotism of the doom-metal band’s first new material in 20 years still feels perfectly matched to Patrick Walker’s pained howls and Vantablack-hued emotions.
Kevin Crandall
On her latest EP, the Native songwriter blends personal and ancestral histories with soft-plucked steel string and powwow drumming to create a shimmering portrait of her heritage.
The punk-rap duo of Xay Young and Enumclaw’s Eli Edwards talk sonic inspirations on their self-titled debut, arriving this week via Carpark Records.
The LA band’s co-founder offers some insight into his debut solo album, plum, and shares the story behind the chill-ass polar bear that’s been starring in all of his visuals.
Alejandro Rose-Garcia’s latest record embodies change and the fleeting process of creation as it finds a peculiar middle ground between heartwarming and haunting.
True to its name, this LP invites the listener to revitalize and reflect as the Brooklyn-based producer reconnects with her emceeing roots and wraps us in soft synthscapes.
The Charleston-based indie rockers explore the middle ground between the quiet isolation of the mountains and the chaos of the live show on these five songs.
The South London sibling duo take stock of the clutter in their life with a second EP of rave-infused pop-punk that may convince the listener that it was actually recorded in 2012.
Littered with existential concerns about what is truly real versus carefully curated presentation, Ryan Kaiser wrestles with American suburbia on his third album of indie-surf tunes.
The crooning alt-R&B figure’s third album compresses you like a weighted blanket under its emotional stories of grief and loss distilled over seven years.
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.
