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.
Anna Calvi, Is This All There Is?
The British songwriter returns with a four-song EP defined by theatrical arrangements and an actorish guest list featuring Iggy Pop, Laurie Anderson, Perfume Genius, and Matt Berninger.
Various artists, Red Xerox: Chicago Youth Beat 2020-2025
Spotlighting the diversity of Chicago’s underground scene, this comp is as much a symposium for genre-defying trailblazers as it is a no-skips playlists capturing the city’s budding youth-beat movement.
Cut Worms, Transmitter
Produced by Jeff Tweedy, Max Clarke’s fourth album tampers down the luster of past records, grounding aspects of the indie-folk songwriter’s music that once seemed impossibly pristine.
Margaret Farrell
The Busta Rhymes-sampling single follows last year’s “2000AND4EVA.”
The trailblazing new wave group is nominated for Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame induction this year.
Their new LP “Smash” will be out this July on Walkmen bassist Peter Bauer’s label Fortune Tellers.
The newest signing to Mark Ronson’s Zelig Records has an EP coming this spring.
by Cindy Barrymore
The Manchester, TN festival is scheduled for the weekend of September 2.
Their collaborative full-length “Utopian Ashes” is out July 2 on Third Man Records.
The set, which is out May 7, includes a bonus album called “Far Memory.”
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Their next album “No Gods No Masters” comes June 11.
The Bay Area artist’s debut is due later this year via Park the Van Records.
The three new covers appear on a deluxe version of “Saint Cloud.”
Unlike that ’00s compilation, it’s actually really great.
The single comes with the announcement of her debut album coming April 30.
The Toledo punks’ fourth album is another marker of growth, and it’s available today via Run for Cover Records.
The group announced a 4-LP version of the album and shared a short film.
It’s the Philadelphia-based duo’s first single since last year’s “The Night We Rise.”
The pair of tracks follows the Chicago rapper’s February single “Pull a James Baldwin.”
epic Ten is out digitally April 16 via Ba Da Bing.
The gang is back with their first official release in a while.
From their upcoming “Leaky Sealing” EP out May 14 on Park the Van.
The duo also announced their debut album “Doomin’ Sun,” out May 28 via Polyvinyl.
