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.
Rachel Chinouriri, I Think I Spoke Too Soon
On her second album, the English artist pivots to clubbier sounds that both satisfy and sting as she suppresses loneliness with a fake smile and a polished dance-pop sheen.
Fontaines D.C., Dopamine Chamber
Opting for a synthetic architecture over the driving guitar language of earlier records, the Dublin band shatters their sonic frontier to reveal a grim catechism for hyper-processed hedonism.
Hole, Pretty on the Inside [Reissue]
Featuring denser, remastered sound and its original bonus 12-inch, the deluxe version of the grunge icons’ debut is a claustrophobic, jam-packed, corrosive epic.
Margaret Farrell
The other half of Melodies on Hiatus, the guitarist’s fifth solo album, is out June 23 via Red Bull Records.
The 14-track collection comes from his three sold-out hometown shows at the Philadelphia venue in 2022.
Bush Tetras March 2023
Following the passing of drummer Dee Pop, Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley recorded drums and produced They Live in My Mind.
Indigo De Souza / photo by Skylar Watkins
The free outdoor concert series, curated this year by L’Rain, takes place in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park from June 7 through August 24.
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.
