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.
Kim Gordon, Play Me
Fully embracing the trashy SoundCloud-era internet aesthetic as she raps, sings, and shreds over industrial clatter, this is the sound of an artist who’s still inspired by the cutting edge at 72.
The Notwist, News From Planet Zombie
This folksy, brassy new iteration of the German trio excels at melodies that yearn and churn with melancholy—yet still manages something celebratory.
Minnesota Artists United Against ICE, Melt ICE
This gigantic comp album featuring 110 Minnesotan artists raising funds for immigrant communities terrorized by ICE may also happen to be where you find your new favorite band.
Lizzie Logan
Revisiting the not-entirely-un-Everything-Everywhere-All-at-Once–like dramedy 20 years on.
Looking past its overly complicated plot, the third installment to Sam Raimi’s trilogy instigated the modern epidemic of Too Much Spidey.
Revisiting Jonathan Kasdan’s occasionally funny but entirely predictable directorial debut 15 years on.
Part vaudeville, part clubhouse, Dynasty Typewriter is the coolest spot in alternative comedy. But with global ambitions, its founders are just getting started.
Looking back on one comedy from the ’80s-remake boom that’s aged like milk 10 years on.
There’s no mystery, no pathos, no heart, and no humor in this 2002 fanfic-like vampire tale—though you might like watching it drunk with your friends.
Buried in a year particularly full of other wedding-set romantic comedies, “Date” remains a charming outlier—not to mention a vestige of peak quirk.
“War Horse”? More like “Why Horse”!
At 15, the 007 origin story holds up as the best Daniel Craig Bond movie, as well as one of the high points of mid-’00s action flicks.
On its 15th anniversary, we revisit Sofia Coppola’s tale of decadence that favors vibes over morals and parable.
They’re doing you dirty, Diana.
It’s no “Josie and the Pussycats,” but the oft-quoted Ben Stiller film sure gave us a laugh when we needed one.
The NY-based collective’s new album officially drops tomorrow.
On its 10th anniversary, we revisit the junior-varsity bro comedy that was almost certainly inspired by an actual gruesome crime.
Revisiting the 2011 rom-com that’s little more than what the title suggests.
On its 25th anniversary, it’s time to revisit the Disney movie as the dark, twisted, weird-as-fuck animated musical for kids that it is.
Revisiting the 1999 himbo adventure classic about white people fucking around with ancient artifacts, which rocks.
Looking back on the tired horror-satire 10 years on, and exploring how it anticipates a post–Wes Craven revival of the series.
Looking back on a (sadly) bygone lit-adaptation teen movie tradition via a staple of the genre that probably couldn’t have been made today.
Reassessing the Sandler arc on his career-defining film’s 25th anniversary.
