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.
Anna Calvi, Is This All There Is?
The British songwriter returns with a four-song EP defined by theatrical arrangements and an actorish guest list featuring Iggy Pop, Laurie Anderson, Perfume Genius, and Matt Berninger.
Various artists, Red Xerox: Chicago Youth Beat 2020-2025
Spotlighting the diversity of Chicago’s underground scene, this comp is as much a symposium for genre-defying trailblazers as it is a no-skips playlists capturing the city’s budding youth-beat movement.
Cut Worms, Transmitter
Produced by Jeff Tweedy, Max Clarke’s fourth album tampers down the luster of past records, grounding aspects of the indie-folk songwriter’s music that once seemed impossibly pristine.
Margaret Farrell
A video for the single arrives ahead of her Star Stuff EP, which is still in the works.
Jamie xx, Caroline Polachek, PinkPantheress, M.I.A., James Blake, and Arca are also among the artists performing at the San Francisco fest in September.
Their self-titled EP will see a physical release on June 18 via Partisan.
Available June 3, the deluxe version of her debut album comes with three new tracks.
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.
