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.
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.
Kevin Crandall
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.
The 11 rock-out earworms chronicling depression and anxiety on the Tacoma-based group’s second LP are well worth the headache.
The Filipina-English artist’s Rick Rubin–produced third album provides a brutally realist introduction to the emotional maturation she’s undergone in the two years since her last LP.
On her studio debut, the Bronx rapper and it-girl of Gen Z’s Y2K aesthetic revivalism gives the impression of a young artist exploring her range.
The West Coast emcee shares how years of observing his TDE labelmates helped shape his new record, which was five years in the making.
On his final release with Def Jam, the Long Beach rapper builds upon his recent output to hone in on the darkness of his past while offering a glimpse into his healing process.
