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.
Olivia Rodrigo, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love
Teetering between the influences of ’80s new wave and ’90s alt-rock, the pop star’s third album is a journey from jubilant lovesickness to a fatalistic collapse into romantic decay.
Goose, Big Modern!
At once their most even-keeled and explosively hook-crowded album yet, the jam-grinding ensemble’s latest is a stretch toward something uniquely slick and end-timey.
Kelsey Lu, So Help Me God
On their second LP, Lu taps Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman to co-produce a fascinating tapestry of pop, R&B, electronica, classical, folk, and everything avant-garde in between.
Margaret Farrell
The Nashville rapper’s new album Metropolis drops June 3 via Mello Music Group.
After a three-year hiatus, the series will return to the LA art museum from June through September.
The video celebrates the one-year anniversary of Maria Ulven’s debut album if i could make it go quiet.
Strange details a painful reality for Black youth in America on his latest single from Farm to Table.
Nine Inch Nails / photo by Daniel Cavazos
Other performers include Ice Cube, Sleater-Kinney, Bauhaus, Descendents, Yellowcard, Alice Glass, The Wonder Years, Bully, and Sunny Day Real Estate.
Asphalt Meadows, the follow-up to 2018’s Thank You for Today, is out September 16.
Cheat Codes—out August 12—features MF Doom, Raekwon & Kid Sister, Joey Bada$$, Conway the Machine, and A$AP Rocky with Run the Jewels.
Apple announced the discontinuation of the iPod Touch—the last variation of the product originally launched over 20 years ago.
It’s the lead single from her forthcoming album Pre Pleasure, out August 26 via Polyvinyl.
Caroline Polachek
The Jack Antonoff–produced project also includes Thundercat, Brockhampton, and Phoebe Bridgers covering classic ’70s hits.
The Pipettes’ Rose Elinor Dougall and Blur’s Graham Coxon share their first song as a duo.
The single follows Rocky’s recent collaborations with A$AP Ant, $NOT, and Nigo.
It’s the English songwriter’s first release since dropping her sophomore album Colourgrade last year.
Enter to win a pair of tickets to the Pasadena festival taking place on August 27 & 28, and featuring The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, Le Tigre, and many more.
Beach House 2021
Get a taste of the duo’s soundtrack in the two teasers shared ahead of the film’s release this Friday.
It’s Blanco second collaborative single of the year following “Family Ties” with Michael Stipe.
Beach Bunny
It’s the third single from their forthcoming sophomore album Emotional Creature, out July 22.
The single comes with an Alaska-directed video featuring some steamy scenes with a robot.
Events throughout June at The O2 in London will bring together artists and climate experts to discuss global change.
How Do You Burn? is out September 9 on Royal Cream/BMG.
