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
It’s the third single from his forthcoming album God Save the Animals, out September 23.
Real Cultural Shit has yet to receive a release date.
Their forthcoming album is out October 28 via Easy Eye Sound.
It’s the first new music from the popstar since last year’s Happier Than Ever.
All proceeds for their covers of “Tears in the Typing Pool” and “The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory” go toward preserving abortion rights.
The expanded version—featuring new tracks and remixes—is out September 23 via Luminelle Recordings.
The track arrives ahead of the deluxe version of Maxo’s Weight of the World, which drops next week.
It’s the lead single from her forthcoming debut album Quiet the Room, out October 14 via Secretly Canadian.
Electronic musician Yaeji helped Michelle Zauner with the translation.
Their 10th album Crybaby is out October 21 via Mom + Pop Music.
Co-produced by Portishead’s Adrian Utley, Anywhere but Here is out October 7 via Domino.
A video for the single arrives ahead of Blanco’s newly announced album Stay Close to Music, out October 14 via Transgressive.
The Scottish trio return with their first new music following 2018’s Cocoa Sugar.
The musician also announced a two-night festival he curated, taking place on November 3 & 4 at Brooklyn Bowl Nashville.
Sharon Van Etten by Nathan Zucker
Her album We’ve Been Going About It All Wrong is out now.
The band’s forthcoming box set Blondie: Against the Odds 1974-1982 is out August 26 via UMe and Numero Group.
The group’s self-titled album is out July 29 via Double Double Whammy.
The event celebrates their forthcoming seventh album The Other Side of Make-Believe, which is out July 15.
The LP, which is out September 23, follows his latest single “Je te vois enfin.”
Blue Rev, the follow-up to 2017’s Antisocialites, is out October 7 via Polyvinyl.
