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.
Butthole Surfers, After the Astronaut
The noise rockers’ long-shelved follow-up to Electriclarryland arrives as a fascinating artifact of a band caught between self-sabotage and the lure of commercial pop accessibility.
Sierra Spirit, Rodeo Clown
On her latest EP, the Native songwriter blends personal and ancestral histories with soft-plucked steel string and powwow drumming to create a shimmering portrait of her heritage.
Warning, Rituals of Shame
The pummeling hypnotism of the doom-metal band’s first new material in 20 years still feels perfectly matched to Patrick Walker’s pained howls and Vantablack-hued emotions.
Kyle MacKinnel
If you were born in the 1980s and have an active imagination, chances are pretty good that at some point during your…
For hip-hop duo Run The Jewels’ anticipated sophomore album, MCs Killer Mike and El-P have cast a line back into the ’90s…
Earlier this year in deepest summer, a particularly infectious pop jam emerged, seemingly out of the clear azure. Titled “OctaHate,” it was…
Neil Young press photo / by Pegi Young
Just in time for the holidays, Neil Young will continue fortifying his undisputed post as the most stubbornly relevant golden-age pillar. Storytone,…
As Pink Floyd readies what David Gilmour insists will be its “last thing,” citing keyboardist Richard Wright’s passing as a…
Crystal Castles press
After three self-titled albums’ worth of solid output, singer Alice Glass has announced her departure from Crystal Castles this morning on…
2014. Bass Drum of Death, “Rip This”
Feeling the energy of this band live in the open air is probably a fun time, but having been vacuum-sealed, Rip City doesn’t have enough to say to justify the leap.
One of the most appealing elements of Christopher Owens’ musical repertoire has always been his preternatural ability to captivate a…
Flying Lotus press photo 2014
To celebrate tomorrow’s release of You’re Dead!, Steven Ellison’s fifth full-length album under the Flying Lotus moniker, have a look at the…
2014. J Mascis “Tied To A Star” album art
Piggybacking off of the excellent, unsung Several Shades of Why (2011), Tied to a Star delivers the same type of upfront, post-toasted melancholia, punctuated by swells from J’s overdriven purple Jazzmaster.
Having peeked out from his bedroom nook and dripped through the rafters down into Ty Segall’s garage, Tim Presley hoists the door open to shed natural light upon White Fence’s sixth album, For the Recently Found Innocent.
