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.
This Is Lorelei, Holo Boy
Water From Your Eyes’ Nate Amos digs into his back catalog of nearly 70 releases shared over the last 12 years, revealing his humble beginnings and the seeds of last year’s breakout LP.
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here 50
This box set repackages the languid yet damaged follow-up to the band’s breakout success, with its true star being the massive-sounding bootleg of a 1975 live show at LA’s Sports Arena.
Blur, The Great Escape [30th Anniversary Edition]
Packed with era-appropriate B-sides, this release celebrates the Britpop quartet in their last gasp of opulent orchestration as they moved into lonely disillusionment and reserved distance.
Margaret Farrell
The Ballad of Darren is out July 21 via Parlophone.
Smith makes good on the promise of 2021’s Be Right Back LP with its follow-up arriving September 29 via FAMM.
Her debut album is projected to arrive later this year.
The follow-up to 2017’s Mellow Waves is out June 28 via Warner Music Japan.
Returning for the first time since its 2018 debut, the event will take place September 15 and 16 at Cincinnati’s ICON Festival Stage at Smale Park.
Lucky for You is out June 2 via Sub Pop.
My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross is out July 7 via Secretly Canadian.
Spoon
The three-track collection featuring songs from the Lucifer on the Sofa sessions is out June 13 via Matador.
Blondshell will be opening the month-long US tour kicking off in November.
Caroline Polachek
The music and internet-culture festival will take place in Idyllwild, California the weekend of August 4.
Additionally featuring a visual for recent single “Don’t Let the Devil,” the film honors Mike’s late mother.
In Times New Roman…, their first LP in six years, is out June 16 via Matador.
It’s Monét’s second single of the year, following the Lucky Daye collaboration “Smoke.”
It’s the third single from their LP Girl with Fish, out June 9 via Saddle Creek.
Her fifth solo album Joy’All is out June 9.
The duo’s Matador Records debut Everyone’s Crushed is out May 26.
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.
