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.
Kim Gordon, Play Me
Fully embracing the trashy SoundCloud-era internet aesthetic as she raps, sings, and shreds over industrial clatter, this is the sound of an artist who’s still inspired by the cutting edge at 72.
The Notwist, News From Planet Zombie
This folksy, brassy new iteration of the German trio excels at melodies that yearn and churn with melancholy—yet still manages something celebratory.
Minnesota Artists United Against ICE, Melt ICE
This gigantic comp album featuring 110 Minnesotan artists raising funds for immigrant communities terrorized by ICE may also happen to be where you find your new favorite band.
Maria Lewczyk
If we’re due for another wave of emo soon, we’re looking somewhere colder than Eastern Pennsylvania.
Along with a playlist curated by the band, Austin Getz goes deep on his newfound love of jazz.
The Title Fight vocalist juggles his internal and external worlds on “Looking Through the Shades,” his debut LP for ANTI-.
Frontman John Galm opens up about his struggles with mental illness and how he channeled it into his current project’s new album, “strength.”
It’s fun, it’s frivolous, it’s insightful.
With “Panorama” marking the Grand Rapids emigrants’ first album in five years, Dreyer tells us what set the project into motion.
Debut album “Crush on Me” explores maturity, queer identity, and how it all relates to the frosted pink, hardcore world we live in.
Saturn is the center of our universe, and gothbois love it.
“Better Oblivion Community Center” is a folk rock album that proves Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers to be perfect singing companions.
