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.
Of Montreal, Aethermead
Kevin Barnes rallies something bracingly emotional on their 20th album in 30 years, sounding more crisply, contagiously, singularly psychedelic than they have in ages.
Olivia Rodrigo, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love
Teetering between the influences of ’80s new wave and ’90s alt-rock, the pop star’s third album is a journey from jubilant lovesickness to a fatalistic collapse into romantic decay.
Goose, Big Modern!
At once their most even-keeled and explosively hook-crowded album yet, the jam-grinding ensemble’s latest is a stretch toward something uniquely slick and end-timey.
Kurt Orzeck
The self-categorized “ecstatic black metal” outfit returns with a second album that’s just as singular and spectacular as their debut.
We caught up with the dream-pop trailblazer as she wraps up her farewell US tour with her trio and celebrates 35 years of Lush’s Gala LP.
Remastered and padded out with 14 outtakes and demos, this reissue of the Louisville band’s fourth LP celebrates their breakout moment of glorious, cosmos-reaching rock music.
Vocals from Ulver, Alcest, and Author & Punisher help James Kent thrust his darksynth project into lightspeed as it comes closer than ever to a full-fledged band’s sound.
The Kansas City post-hardcore band’s bassist Paul Malinowski talks producing their new LP BELIEVEYOUME, as well as dream collaborators and nightmare live show experiences.
Frontman Tony Esposito candidly comments on each song featured on the Kentucky garage-rock band’s fifth full-length.
The Coathangers’ Julia Kugel treats each note of her second solo album as a delicate item to be savored and appreciated from a state of mindfulness.
The UK rockers don’t mince words on their fourth studio album, pairing their infectious proto-punk grooves with nakedly hedonistic lyrics.
The Houston “dirtgaze” trio ruminate on our intolerable times with some of the quietest and slowest music—as well as the most deafening, distortion-filled cacophony—you’ll hear in 2025.
Completing songs written during sessions with late bandmate Adam Schlesinger, this collection hearkens back to the airy spirit that made Ivy such a delight at a time when it was hip to be hopeless.
As they continue to tour their new album Sunshine and Balance Beams across North America, Rick Maguire talks recording process, signing to Sooper Records, and more.
With its 11 catchy grunge-pop tunes each referencing pro-wrestling culture, the Brooklyn band’s full-length debut prioritizes fun in its escapist return to the slacker-rock charm of the ’90s.
Reaching the pinnacle of his songwriting acuity, the vignettes McCombs paints with his voice and guitar on his 13th album evoke a conversation between Thoreau and Nick Cave.
The Belgian shoegazers’ noisier and more mature third record takes the form of a hopeful manifesto that the human race still has the opportunity to reinvent itself.
The Wand frontman’s fourth solo outing confronts American grift culture with hope and a communal spirit, as his backing players seem to prevent him from turning inward and catastrophizing.
The club-ready breakbeats and unrelenting experimentation on the Austin trio’s second LP serve as a deafening clarion call for humanity to get its act together before it’s too late.
The Detroit punks’ sixth album is a consistent, melodic post-hardcore assault, maintaining a relentless pummeling in defiance to the system as much as it is to their recent pop streak.
With his latest LP Autofiction out now, Joel Johnston discusses the headspace he was in as the project came together—as well as when he initiated the project in 2014.
In honor of the band’s recent revival, we also caught up with vocalist/bassist Chris Taylor and guitarist Mike Widman to discuss more pressing matters—such as who shot JFK.
This single-vinyl compendium welds together the two EP releases that preceded the OKC sludge-rockers’ formal introduction to the unwitting masses.
