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.
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.
Styrofoam Winos, Any River
The Nashville group’s country-leaning third album is full of nuance, from the sheer array of instrumentation to its affective emotional dynamics.
Swamp Dogg, Swamp Dogg Contemplates the Afterlife
The country-R&B cult hero crafts an album about the afterlife that’s reflective of decades filled with hurt and hurting.
Lily Moayeri
The songwriter talks shifting gears from a career in social activism to the family trade of music, most recently learning to be her most honest, unguarded self with a pair of recent singles.
In our latest digital cover story, the Norwegian pop star and The Chemical Brothers co-founder discuss their unlikely pairing and decade-long friendship leading up to their debut collaboration, Come Closer.
The visceral sci-fi universe Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin created for their latest record, Imaginal Disk, is hardly contained to the music. Here, the longtime creative partners discuss how their stage production and upcoming “album movie” have helped them expand the scope of their vision.
Brothers David and Stephen Dewaele discuss balancing their new album All Systems Are Lying against their endless list of remix, live DJ, and soundtrack projects.
The former Wild Belle vocalist discusses her second solo album My Home Is Not in This World and the sense of belonging it aims to inspire.
In our latest digital cover story, Sasami Ashworth details her journey from playing in a 60-piece orchestra to fronting the solo pop project that reaches new creative peaks on her provocative third record, Blood on the Silver Screen.
In the midst of tragic fires in Los Angeles, we caught up with Poolside’s Jeffrey Paradise, Moby, and others on how the music community has stepped up to help both emotionally and financially.
The group’s guitarist discusses his new, beautifully bound coffee table book I’m with Pulp, Are You?, which pairs band ephemera with Webber’s brutally honest words.
Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote share how their fans and a new set of limitations (not to mention angry Airbnb neighbors) shaped their fourth LP, Viva Hinds.
Following two weekends at Coachella, Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay discuss the aesthetics, collaborations, and patient workflow that shaped their fourth album, Hyperdrama.
With the release of the dance-punk band’s first new album in 12 years, Beth Ditto discusses how Rick Rubin, her upbringing in rural Arkansas, and her activity outside of music have helped shape her vision.
From intimate memoirs, to photo-heavy coffee table books, to graphic novel biographies, we look back on 20 of the most invigorating reads of the year.
LOS ANGELES – 1967: Love (L-R Ken Forssi, Bryan MacLean, Michael Stuart, Alban “Snoopy” Pfisterer, Arthur Lee, Tjay Cantrelli and Johnny Echols) perform live in 1967 at the Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images)
Love’s Johnny Echols, Redd Kross, Surf Curse, and more local luminaries reflect on LA’s most storied clubs through the decades, from the Whisky to The Smell.
In our latest digital cover story, Chris shares how his latest album Paranoïa, Angels, True Love gave him the much-needed structure to push through a difficult time.
Nostalgix, Hengameh, Chain Gang of 1974, Kittens, and more share their thoughts on the current moment of revolution being led by Gen Z in Iran.
On the heels of his new Aloha Soul EP, the musician/surfer talks splitting his time between London and Hawaii and learning to approach songwriting as a collaborative endeavor.
Brett Anderson and Neil Codling discuss Autofiction, their rare US tour, and the iconic Britpop group’s second act.
Kelcey Ayer of Local Natives dives into the highly personal subject matter of his sophomore solo album, Second Life.
Phoning in from their tour opening for Harry Styles, producer Ryan Hope discusses the nu-gospel trio’s quick rise to acclaim.
Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland, along with visual artist Jonathan Zawada, discuss the newly released part-two to their experimental audiovisual trilogy.
