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.
Boards of Canada, Inferno
The Scottish duo’s first album in 13 years is their most evocative yet, presenting a series of down-tuned tones and dark chordal scores rippling with cryptic samples and robo-voice blips.
Paul McCartney, The Boys of Dungeon Lane
On his 20th album, the octogenarian pop-rock architect builds a time machine out of scuffed acoustic guitars, warm tape hiss, and the kind of indelible melodies that cast a long shadow.
Iceage, For Love of Grace & the Hereafter
By returning to the rustic environment that birthed their mid-career peak, the Danish post-punks rekindle their core artistic flame with a masterclass in controlled chaos.
Kim March
The fest is coming to Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, CA this May.
The destruction of the Apollo Masters facility affects the vinyl industry worldwide.
The band’s merch saved 9.9 million gallons of water last year.
Off their forthcoming fourth record, “Always Tomorrow,” due out February 21.
The emo/pop-punk kings of the 2000s are back.
The track, off her forthcoming album “U kin B the Sun,” is Angie Stone–inspired.
It’s the lead single from “New Me, Same Us,” out March 27.
It’ll be their first in nine long years.
Frontman Matt Shultz had the most wardrobe changes in a single show in “ACL” history.
The psych/soul blend comes off an album of the same name, out March 13 via Colemine Records.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs / photo by Luis Moreno
The Amazon Original exclusive track is available today.
“Simmer” is the first track off “PETALS FOR ARMOR,” her new album out in May.
“Traditional Techniques” will be out March 6 via Matador.
“Other Side of Town” mixes New Orleans R&B with doo-wop gang vocals in a psychedelic blender.
The 1975 at Shrine Expo Hall / photo by Joyce Jude Lee
The upcoming tour also comes with some environmental promises.
Featuring Tame Impala, Missy Elliott, Flume, Vampire Weekend, and more.
The track is off “The Turning” movie soundtrack, and is inspired in part by the late Jay Reatard.
H.E.R., Bonnie Raitt, Camila Cabello, and the Jonas Brothers will also be hitting the Grammy stage this year.
MIA at Riot Fest / photo by Brigid Gallagher
Prince William made her a Member Of The Order Of The British Empire.
Daphne Nguyen
The track is off her new EP “Stranger Heart,” due out February 14.
