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.
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.
The Notwist, News From Planet Zombie
This folksy, brassy new iteration of the German trio excels at melodies that yearn and churn with melancholy—yet still manages something celebratory.
Margaret Farrell
Ahead of their debut for Matador Records, Rachel Brown and Nate Amos talk Everyone’s Crushed, changing routines, and newfound exposure—well, actually mostly just 311.
Two groups making Chicago proud.
Beach House
The Become EP, a collection of five outtakes from the Once Twice Melody sessions, will also be widely available on vinyl on May 19.
So Many Realities Exist Simultaneously is out May 5 via Rhymesayers.
Their newly announced Din EP is out June 30 via Mark Ronson’s Zelig Records.
“Hinoki Wood” is the opening track from the follow-up to 2020’s Mia Gargaret, arriving May 26.
The follow-up to 2020’s Lowkey Superstar is out May 26 via drink sum wtr.
I Inside the Old Year Dying, her tenth album, is out July 7 via Partisan.
Hear the first two singles from More Photographs (A Continuum), which is out May 26 via Dead Oceans.
The collaboration marks Thundercat’s first new music in three years.
The solo debut comes in the wake of Fontaines’ 2022 album Skinty Fia.
The London-based trio’s self-titled debut album is out May 12 via Third Man Records.
Alicia Bognanno’s new LP Lucky for You is out June 2 via Sub Pop.
“Claire’s a good friend since she brought me on her tour around the release of her first album.”
MICHAEL, the rapper’s first solo album in over a decade, is out June 16.
Foo Fighters / photo by Andreas Nuemann
The band’s eleventh studio album—and their first following the passing of drummer Taylor Hawkins—is out June 2.
Her debut album Disenchanter is out July 14 via Luminelle Recordings.
Her debut album I Hope You Can Forgive Me is out May 12.
The album of the same name—and the duo’s first in eight years—is out May 19 via Merge.
A collaboration with pianists Timo Andres and Conor Hanick, Reflections is out May 19 via Asthmatic Kitty.
