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.
This Is Lorelei, Holo Boy
Water From Your Eyes’ Nate Amos digs into his back catalog of nearly 70 releases shared over the last 12 years, revealing his humble beginnings and the seeds of last year’s breakout LP.
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here 50
This box set repackages the languid yet damaged follow-up to the band’s breakout success, with its true star being the massive-sounding bootleg of a 1975 live show at LA’s Sports Arena.
Blur, The Great Escape [30th Anniversary Edition]
Packed with era-appropriate B-sides, this release celebrates the Britpop quartet in their last gasp of opulent orchestration as they moved into lonely disillusionment and reserved distance.
Kyle Lemmon
The Brooklyn trio’s sixth LP is an elegant metamorphosis for a group that seemed crystallized within its mid-’00s indie-rock styles.
Finn and Nicolay talk reveling in the six-piece setup, their passion for live residencies, and 8th album “Open Door Policy.”
“New Fragility” builds up a better framework for CYHSY as an Alec Ounsworth solo project.
The latest, truly masterful statement from Tamara Lindeman blooms beyond her Americana roots.
Much of the Pumpkins’ overstuffed 11th album is merely a faded approximation of ’90s rock.
The constant theme on Calexico’s new holiday album is friends and family celebrating the good times.
The group’s sixth album is a long exhale after the excited breathing and bare-chested songcraft heard on their last three records.
“The Ascension” is an unrelenting release that asks a lot of its listeners, but it gives back plenty as well.
The band’s sixth album sounds like a bigger, hi-fidelity bite of the “Sam’s Town” apple.
Sophie Allison follows up “color theory” with a compilation featuring Jay Som, SASAMI, and more.
The piano is the torch guiding Jones through the darkness on her eighth solo album.
Sumney brings shards of art rock, R&B, classical, electronic, jazz, and soul into one beautiful piece of musical kintsugi.
Thundercat continues to alchemize his inimitable style as a honeyed singer, whipsmart producer, and lithe bassist.
A track-by-track ranking of the album that made me realize it was OK to be anxious.
Mackenzie Scott has always been a sharp and economical lyricist with a variety of personas at her disposal.
The cousins discuss inverting genre tropes, their first embarrassing movie, and the evergreen influence of “Columbo.”
William Tyler // Modern Country
The Nashville guitarist continues his streak as an accomplished folk storyteller with or without words.
The Numero Group focuses its lens on the pivotal country music made between 1969 and 1980, when many smaller musicians were directly inspired by Gram Parsons and The Flying Burrito Brothers.
2016. La Sera, “Music for Listening to Music to”
This isn’t Music Appreciation 101.
2015. Wild Nothing, “Life of Pause” album art
Jack Tatum leans further into the synth-pop landscape than ever before on his third album as Wild Nothing, “Life of Pause.”
