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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Warning, Rituals of Shame
The pummeling hypnotism of the doom-metal band’s first new material in 20 years still feels perfectly matched to Patrick Walker’s pained howls and Vantablack-hued emotions.
Styrofoam Winos, Any River
The Nashville group’s country-leaning third album is full of nuance, from the sheer array of instrumentation to its affective emotional dynamics.
Swamp Dogg, Swamp Dogg Contemplates the Afterlife
With the aid of producer and organist Raymond Angry, the country-R&B cult hero crafts an album about the afterlife that’s reflective of decades filled with hurt and hurting.
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First Look
In the Pines Introduce a Bear to Mind-Expanding Philosophies in New Video for “Let It Slide”
The Cincinnati-based psych-rockers’ new album Painting by Numbers drops this Friday via Soul Step Records.
November 01, 2023
First Listen
TIFFY Is Blissfully Offline in the Video for New Single “Lost in the Shuffle”
Boston-based songwriter Tiffany Sammy’s debut LP So Serious arrives in full this Friday via Totally Real Records and Dollhouse Lightning.
November 01, 2023
First Listen
Guided by Voices Set the Tone for New LP with Opening Track “The Race Is on, the King Is Dead”
Nowhere to Go but Up, the band’s third LP of 2023, arrives November 24 via GBV Inc.
October 31, 2023
First Look
Victoria Bigelow Pays Homage to David Fincher in New Video for “Panic Room”
The track appeared on the Arizona-based songwriter’s recent Songs for No One Vol. 1 EP.
October 30, 2023
Track by Track
Lowertown Break Down Their Era-Concluding New EP “Skin of My Teeth”
Olivia Osby and Avsha Weinberg’s follow-up to last year’s debut LP I Love to Lie is out now.
October 27, 2023
First Listen
Matt Pond PA and Alexa Rose Team Up on New Spooky Season Single “Halloween Two”
The duo promise a full EP and tour in the near future.
October 27, 2023
Playlist
Nanna’s Favorite Icelandic Artists Playlist
Before taking the stage at Iceland Airwaves in Reykjavík next weekend, the Of Monsters and Men vocalist shares a few of her favorite songs by musicians local to her home country.
October 26, 2023
First Listen
Dollar Signs Are Holding It Down in the Devil’s Tramping Ground in Video for “Old Times’ Sake”
The slasher-inspired clip arrives ahead of tomorrow’s release of the Charlotte punks’ new LP Legend Tripping.
October 26, 2023
First Listen
Bory Announces Debut LP “Who’s a Good Boy,” Gets Petty on New Single “We Both Won”
Produced by Mo Troper, Brenden Ramirez’s new collection of songs arrives December 8 via Earth Libraries imprint Earth Worms.
October 25, 2023
First Listen
Frances Chang Tells a Winding Story with New Progressive Art-Pop Single “Eye Land”
The Brooklyn-based songwriter has announced that her second album Psychedelic Anxiety will arrive February 16 on Ramp Local.
October 25, 2023
Backstage Camera Roll
Backstage Camera Roll: Chris Farren and Diners
The West Coast power-pop musicians share the most lavish highlights of their recent US tour.
October 24, 2023
First Listen
The Suffers’ Kam Franklin Honors the Lives of Hate Crime Victims on New Track “Byrd and Shepard”
The single’s proceeds will be donated to The Byrd Foundation for Racial Healing and The Matthew Shepard Foundation.
October 24, 2023
Playlist
Fefe Dobson’s Favorite Canadian Artists Playlist
As the songwriter’s tour of her home country supporting her latest LP EMOTION SICKNESS winds down, she shares 12 songs by her local musical heroes.
October 23, 2023
Wu-Tang Clan Return with First New Single in Six Years “Claudine”
Produced by Mathematics, the track features Method Man and Ghostface Killah along with R&B vocalist Nicole Bus.
October 20, 2023
Track by Track
Sun June Walk Us Through the Insomniac Dream-Pop of Their New LP “Bad Dream Jaguar”
The Austin-formed collective takes us track by track through their third LP, out today via Run for Cover.
October 20, 2023
Playlist
Dhani Harrison’s “INNERSTANDING” Influences Playlist
With his second solo album arriving digitally this week, Harrison shares how everyone from Death Grips to Navajo-Ute flutist R. Carlos Nakai inspired him.
October 19, 2023
Non-Musical Influences
8 Non-Musical Influences on Dreamwell’s New Album “In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You”
From Sartre to Martyrs, K.Z. Staska shares what helped shape the Providence screamo band’s debut for Prosthetic Records.
October 19, 2023
First Listen
Slothrust Are at Peace with Their Natural Surroundings on New Track “Maybe Maybe”
Leah Wellbaum and Will Gorin’s new EP I Promise is out in full tomorrow via Dangerbird Records.
October 19, 2023
First Listen
The Serfs Share a Frigid Message for Sycophants with New Track “Beat Me Down”
The Cincinnati punks’ new album Half Eaten by Dogs drops October 27 via Trouble in Mind Records.
October 19, 2023
First Listen
Little Bit Considers the Pitfalls of Deception on New Single “Lying to You”
The second solo single from Lilith’s Hannah Liuzzo arrives ahead of her debut EP, Talk a Blue Streak.
October 18, 2023
