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.
Joy Division, Eternal
With its recently discovered live volumes as its focus, this career-ranging box set valuably continues to lay flat the post-punk band’s sound at its most raw and unadorned.
Meg Lui, Instant Validation
Partnering with Sufjan Stevens on her perky debut album of freewheeling folk-pop, country-rock, and even sea shanties, the Catskills-based songwriter flits between genres with ease.
Empress Of, Dream House
On a prismatic album about reconstruction and fulfillment, the Honduran-American songwriter embodies pure-hearted conviction to remind us home is where the heart is.
Kurt Orzeck
photo by Brian Kelly
Not really. But the South Carolina comic does set his sights on our new reality in his new special, Rory Scovel Tries Stand-Up for the First Time.
“Ends With And” replenishes the coffers of completists whose cassette collections have crumbled and provides a wide-ranging primer for curious newcomers.
At its core, “To Syria, with Love” is not a celebration of a love that exists in the present but rather a painful longing for a love that he wants back.
The road goes on forever and the party never ends.
“August by Cake” is an album stuffed with songs that qualify as demos, half-baked ideas, and snippets, along with a handful of brilliant gems nestled in between.
When he’s not sharing stories about strangers, Marlon Rabenreither spills his guts about his own love affairs, breakups, and what it’s like to be all by his lonesome self.
The Colin Newman–led band is not the same as it used to be fifteen albums ago. And that’s exactly the point.
“The Dollop”’s Dave Anthony gives us the inside scoop for this year’s fest.
On their latest LP, the Cleveland band have realized—or stumbled upon—something lush and lovely.
Ty Segall’s second self-titled album serves as an excellent primer of his career to date—but then again he always is a trickster at heart.
Japanese artist Azuma Makoto turns deconstructed floristry into fine art.
The Los Angeles artist surveys the scene from her Mt. Washington home studio.
PORTSMOUTH, VA – JUNE 21: Weird Al Yankovic In Concert at Portsmouth Pavilion on June 21, 2016 in Portsmouth, Virginia. (Photo by David A. Beloff/Getty Images)
The entertainer’s gravitas was undeniable in the glow of the Bowl—his first time playing with a live orchestra.
James Carville and Sarah Palin at Politicon 2016, photo courtesy of Politicon
With tensions at a neck-popping high, the unconventional political convention tries to knead a little levity into the political conversation.
Jon Stewart on the “Daily Show” set in 1999
Even before it was shaping the national conversation and hosting sitting presidents, The Daily Show was skewering the way the media delivers the news. Ahead of their panel at Politicon, the show’s creators and early correspondents tell us how it all came together.
White Zombie “It Came From NYC”
Before they became astro creeps, White Zombie were a horror-influenced no-wave group in the New York underground.
Tim Hecker photographed in Los Angeles, CA on Thursday, February 18, 2016.
Photo by Emily Berl
With the California sun in his eyes, the dark master of atmosphere and ambience has just released his lightest-ever record, the appropriately titled “Love Streams.” But that doesn’t mean he’s going soft.
PJ Harvey “The Hope Six Demolition Project” hi-res
All good things come to an end.
2016. Parquet Courts Human Performance cover hi-res
Parquet Courts possess a unique skill: making each of their albums sound as if it was their first.
2016. Iggy Pop and Josh Homme. cred Andreas Neumann
Stirring up dirt in the Joshua Tree desert with Iggy Pop and Josh Homme—the world’s smartest Dum Dum Boys—to talk “Post Pop Depression,” this year’s most devastating rock album.
