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.
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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.
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Kari Faux Announces “Lowkey Superstar Deluxe” with New Single “Too Much, Too Fast”
The album—released with Don Giovanni Records, and featuring J.I.D., Jazz Cartier, Yung Baby Tate, and Smino—arrives September 24.
August 17, 2021
On “Dogma,” Circuit des Yeux Ventures on an Odyssey of Instinct
It’s the lead single from their sixth album “-io,” which is out October 22 via Matador.
August 17, 2021
Track by Track
binki Walks Us Through His Energizing EP “Motor Function”
The songwriter’s debut is out now via Fader Label.
August 16, 2021
Disclosure Welcome Us Back to the Dance Floor with “In My Arms”
It’s the duo’s first new music of 2021.
August 16, 2021
Bon Iver Announces 10th Anniversary Shows and Reissue of “Bon Iver, Bon Iver”
The limited edition reissue comes with a personal essay by Phoebe Bridgers.
August 16, 2021
Girl K Get Lost in Existential Revelry (and the ’80s) on New Single “Hah”
The Chicago-based group is dropping their new EP “Girl K Is for the People” on September 10.
August 13, 2021
Lizzo and Cardi B Want You to Know the “Rumors” Are True
This one’s for all the “Hercules” (1997) heads out there.
August 13, 2021
Track by Track
Jackie Hayes Unpacks the Biblical Lies and Time Theft That Informed Her New EP
The Chicago-based songwriter breaks down her EP “There’s Always Going to Be Something,” which is out now.
August 13, 2021
NAO Implores Us to Not Run From Ourselves on “Wait”
It’s the second single from the London singer’s third album “And Then Life Was Beautiful,” out September 24.
August 12, 2021
Onyx Collective Get Wrapped Up in a Hypnotic Groove on the Chromeo-Produced “Tango”
This is the third single from the NYC jazz group to be co-produced by Dave 1 and P-Thugg.
August 12, 2021
Film & TVFilm + TV News
St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein Fight Over a Rockstar’s Reality in “The Nowhere Inn” Clip
The Bill Benz–directed film is available September 17 through IFC Films.
August 12, 2021
In Conversation
In Conversation: Speaking LUMP Language with Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay
The duo discuss unraveling the riddle of the unconscious on their second album together, “Animal.”
August 12, 2021
Tasha Clings to Joy on “Lake Superior”
The new single follows this past March’s “Would You Mind Please Pulling Me Close.”
August 11, 2021
Shower Curtain Can’t Escape Herself on the Contemplative Bedroom-Pop of “Running”
Her new EP “Something Instead” is out September 24.
August 11, 2021
Cherry Glazerr Lets Her Guard Down on New Moonlit Single “Soft Drink”
The new track follows “Big Bang” from earlier this year.
August 10, 2021
spill tab Connects with Tommy Genesis on the Carbonated Dance Track “Indecisive”
It’s this year’s third single from the Los Angeles–based musician and part-time tattoo artist.
August 10, 2021
Big Thief Sound Refreshed on New Singles “Little Things” and “Sparrow”
The two singles serve as the band’s first new material since 2019’s “Two Hands” and “U.F.O.F.”
August 10, 2021
Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen Share Stripped Down Version of “Like I Used To”
The two performed the new version together on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
August 10, 2021
On “Program,” Seafoam Walls Equate Human Survival to Computer Operations
Their debut album “XVI” is out November 21 on Thurston Moore’s label Ecstatic Peace Library.
August 09, 2021
Chynna’s Family Shares “seasonal depression pt. 2,” Grants Posthumous Album Release
“drug opera” will be released posthumously on August 20.
August 09, 2021
