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.
Dry Cleaning, Secret Love
With the help of producer Cate Le Bon, the South London quartet’s third album sands down their jagged post-punk edges into smooth, surreal pebbles of magical realism.
Various artists, Passages: Artists in Solidarity with Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers
These unheard tracks from Dirty Projectors, Daniel Lopatin, and more are hushed and raw, all crafted with the idea of evoking a sense of home to highlight those whose own are at risk.
HEALTH, Conflict DLC
The noise-rockers’ sixth LP is a full-on rush of nihilistic energy, a shattered disco ball serving as the perfect encapsulation of a world decimated by capitalistic greed at the expense of humanity.
Margaret Farrell
Cosentino’s new record will arrive July 28 via Concord Records as her band takes an indefinite hiatus.
Lead single “Bogus Operandi” arrives ahead of the new LP The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons, which is out August 11.
The track comes with the announcement of Claud’s sophomore album Supermodels, arriving July 14 via Saddest Factory Records.
Sugar the Bruise is out June 16 via Fat Possum.
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.
