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 singer-songwriter and LA native talks about her new album “Quiet Signs” and surviving on an emotional battlefield.
Women are using music to detail exactly how they want it (NSFW). We’ve compiled twelve of the best examples.
On “Evil Genius,” Gucci’s raps about his past are piled with repetitive tropes and uncreative imagery.
Finding a balance between joy and self-seriousness, this is the quartet’s finest and most decadent album to date.
“Aviary” walks like a duck and talks like a duck, in album terms, anyway, but the more you pay attention, the less it fits in.
The music industry, like history, repeats itself, which is why Greta Van Fleet feels deceptively refreshing—at least to talk about.
The American rap group—or boy band, if you ask them—have found the right balance of vulnerability and abrasive freneticism.
“Sweetener” is a pop remedy for anxiety, while also explicitly detailing its crippling nature.
Ross from Friends’ debut indulges in humor and the minutiae of legacy, handling the details with care.
“Hive Mind” solidifies The Internet’s sound as a newly formed molecule, sharing skills and attributes like electrons in a covalent bond.
More playful than cannibalistic, Jenny Hollingworth and Rosa Walton want you to join them in the supermarket of their dreams.
Parquet Courts are practicing a kind of self-care: the self-care of rebellion, of questioning, of not taking things at face value.
Tinashe is confident and proud, but at the end of thirty-six minutes there doesn’t seem to be a clear understanding of who she is.
A hodgepodge of contemplations on love at its best and worst.
Over fortified vocal harmonies, punching rock drum beats, and growling guitars that ring like fire alarms, Dream Wife have conceived a pointed but fun debut.
