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.
Cola, Cost of Living Adjustment
While they continue to excel at lo-fi post-punk, the Canadian outfit’s third album mixes the angularity and simplicity of their previous LPs with something much lusher and richer.
Broken Social Scene, Remember the Humans
The amorphous Canadian supergroup returns after nearly a decade to unearth a brand new yet wholly familiar artful rock sound with a surprising amount of momentum behind it.
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Live at the Paradise Rock Club, 1978
Recorded via two-track by WBCN-FM Boston in time for the band’s sophomore album, this live LP is a rare contact high connected to the sage rage of their earliest punk-rock days.
Margaret Farrell
“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.
