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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Allison Russell, In the Hour of Chaos
Clearly written in the pressure cooker of Trump’s America, the artist’s community-oriented third album battles the darkness with an at-times overwhelming sense of optimism.
The Rolling Stones, Foreign Tongues
The Stones come as close as they ever will to reckoning with their twilight years on a surprisingly effective 25th LP that finds them bringing a fresh spark to their signature sound.
Kelela, New Avatar
The songwriter’s earliest soul and jazz influences can be found swirling throughout her third album, which also expands into the realms of hypnotic electronic music and alt rock.
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Digital Cover
Death Cab for Cutie: Freezing Moments in Time
In our latest digital cover story, Ben Gibbard and bassist Nick Harmer situate the heartbreak and hope within the band’s newly released 11th album, I Built You a Tower.
July 07, 2026
In Conversation
Matty Wishnow on Capturing Robert Christgau, One of the Greatest to Give a Grade, with “The Last Critic”
The first-time filmmaker discusses his personal connection to the critic’s work and why Christgau’s wife Carola may be the real star of the new doc premiering at SXSW.
March 13, 2026
Of Monsters and Men’s New Realities
Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir discusses marching on with the Icelandic band’s fourth album, All Is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade.
October 16, 2025
In Conversation
S.G. Goodman Is a Product of Her Time and Place
The Kentucky-based songwriter digs deeper into the systems of belief that informed her latest collection of Americana music, Planting by the Signs.
June 23, 2025
In Conversation
Tegan and Sara Keep Graduating
Tegan Quin discusses the sisters’ new album Crybaby, their new TV series High School, and surviving another set of overlapping press cycles.
October 18, 2022
A Small-Scale Introduction to Allison Ponthier
With her debut EP “Faking My Own Death” out this Friday, the songwriter discusses making the leap from Texas to NYC, recording with Lord Huron, and becoming a cowboy.
August 04, 2021
Digital Cover
Julien Baker: Feeling OK in a Different Way
In our latest digital cover story, Baker dives into the experiences that led to her new album “Little Oblivions.”
March 04, 2021
In Conversation
In Conversation: The National’s Matt Berninger Takes Us Behind the Scenes of “Serpentine Prison”
The songwriter dishes on Booker T’s anecdotes, the inspiration of Willie Nelson’s “Stardust,” and finally going solo.
October 16, 2020
Phoebe Bridgers on “Punisher,” a Product of Patience and Meticulousness
The songwriter discusses what she describes as her treatise on having a personal life during the apocalypse.
June 17, 2020
Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield Turns Inward on “Saint Cloud”
The Alabama songwriter talks her new record and the challenges of being sober in the music biz.
March 23, 2020
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Then Is Now: The Return of Tegan and Sara
In our first digital cover story, the duo discuss the new album, establishing distinct identities, and how music saved their relationship.
October 02, 2019
In Conversation: Jay Som Talks Family, Race, and Perfectionism
The songwriter on the quick evolution from her 2017 breakthrough to this month’s “Anak Ko.”
August 27, 2019
Frightened Rabbit at Lollapalooza 2016 / photo by James Richards IV
Frightened Rabbit’s Grant Hutchison on Losing His Brother and Keeping the Music Alive
Along with Julien Baker + Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull, Grant remembers Scott Hutchison’s brutally honest artistry.
July 18, 2019
Stella Donnelly Talks Bad Male Behavior and Not Pulling Any Punches
On her debut “Beware of the Dogs,” the Aussie singer-songwriter addresses the progress and pain of #MeToo.
March 05, 2019
Art & CultureIn Conversation
In Conversation: Michael Azerrad on How Breaking Laws Makes for Better Music Journalism
The “Our Band Could Be Your Life” writer has a new book, “Rock Critic Law,” which lays out 101 of the tropes that lazy music writers can’t seem to help but fall back on over and over. But he isn’t mad—he’s just trying to make writers better.
September 26, 2018
Dave Sardy: A Playlist for Big Brother
With “≠,” the producer known as DSARDY aims to address technology’s dehumanizing effects by enlisting the help of the industry’s preeminent humans.
April 18, 2018
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Natalie Prass Turns Up a New Road
After the election, the Richmond artist threw out the introspective album she’d been working on and started over. What she made next was music for everyone.
March 28, 2018
Film + TVIn Conversation
In Conversation: The Decemberists’ Chris Funk on “Funk Plus One” and the Hidden Gems of American Music
When he’s not busy playing in one of the most beloved indie bands around, Chris Funk is looking for the stories that get to the core of what drives musicians.
February 06, 2018
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Julien Baker, “Turn Out the Lights”
Across all of “Turn Out the Lights,” Baker doesn’t pull a single punch.
October 31, 2017
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Iron & Wine, “Beast Epic”
As much as “Beast Epic”‘s music feels like a look back with a head full of experience, it doesn’t stop Sam Beam from keeping his lyrical gaze on what’s ahead of him.
August 30, 2017
