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
News of the Asheville-based group’s signing to the indie giant arrives with a video for the nearly nine-minute single.
The smart-mouthed junk food team returns with a feature film on November 8.
The set features a new album mix, a 100-page book with a foreword written by Paul McCartney, an essay by Questlove, detailed track notes, and other goodies.
Their show High School, which is based on the duo’s bestselling memoir, debuts next month.
It’s the second single from his forthcoming album FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE, out October 14.
Her sophomore album Protector is out October 28 via Partisan.
It’s the third single from the group’s forthcoming album Doggerel that’s out September 30.
It’s the first song and video from her forthcoming album Fossora>.
Kendrick Lamar
The track appears on Lamar’s recent album Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers.
The follow-up to 2016’s Hedonism is out October 28 via Young Art Records.
The project follows last year’s singles “Black Stone” and “Blue Liquid.”
Cracker Island is out February 24 via Warner Records.
The new album is out September 30.
The New Orleans punks’ third album Endure is out November 4 via Rough Trade.
The popstar’s fifth studio album Dirt Femme is out October 14.
Dawn Richard
They’ve shared the first movement from the album that’s out October 21 via Merge.
Their forthcoming album The Car is out October 21.
The single follows last month’s “Far Apart,” the Toronto musician’s first track in two years.
Her sophomore album Hold the Girl is out September 16 via Dirty Hit.
The first three episodes of Björk: Sonic Symbolism will be released on September 1.
