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.
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.
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.
Margaret Farrell
The Chicago duo’s newly announced third album SPARK is out September 16 via Secretly Canadian.
Tickets for the September London and LA shows go on sale Friday, June 17.
Her fifth full-length is out September 9 on Little Jerk Records.
It’s the third single from the experimental metal group’s forthcoming album Heaven Is Here, out June 24.
It’s the second single from her forthcoming album Pre Pleasure, out August 26.
Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich play doubles against Heidecker and Doug “DJ Douggpound” Lussenhop with narration by John Lurie.
The new version of her debut album includes seven previously unreleased songs.
It’s the fourth single from the musician’s forthcoming album Sometimes, Forever, out June 24.
The duo will release Fruit, their debut album as The A’s, on July 15.
With her debut album out now, Hannah Judge tells us about the best songs to lose your mind to.
It’s the second single from the duo’s collaborative album Cheat Codes, which is out June 17.
Foo Fighters
The band will perform at London’s Wembley Stadium and LA’s Kia Forum in September.
The track “Woody Shaw” arrives ahead of Jazz Codes, out July 1 via ANTI-.
Their debut album BAD MFs is out now via NFT platform Gala Music.
They also discuss the similarities between performing on stage and preaching on Killer Mike’s PBS interview program Love & Respect.
Killer Mike / photo by Carlo Cavaluzzi
The celebration of Black American Independence Day will take place on June 19.
The album is out July 29 via Zelig Records.
Denim and Diamonds was produced by Queens of the Stone Age’s Joshua Homme and is out September 23.
The French rock band are currently in the studio finishing their follow-up to 2017’s Ti Amo.
The trio’s fifth studio album Cool It Down is out September 30 via Secretly Canadian.
