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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Kacey Musgraves, Middle of Nowhere
Awash in twang and thick pedal steel, the country star’s seventh album explores the solitary no man’s land that exists between the ending of one relationship and the beginning of another.
Kneecap, Fenian
With bigger melodies and broader synth soundscapes, the rage-rave rap trio’s second LP takes an unexpected turn inward as they continue to take the politics of the world at large to task.
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Penetratingly exact and proudly undefinable, Nick Llobet’s first album since expanding the project to a duo adds more definition to the sinewy, searching palette of their previous material.
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Just a Wheatus Christmas Playlist, Baby
On the heels of their new Just a Dirtbag Christmas EP, the power-pop hitmakers share what they’ll be listening to this holiday season.
December 07, 2023
First Listen
Punchlove Give Into Inevitable Decay on Heavy New Single “Dead Lands”
The track marks the NYC shoegaze group’s debut recording for Kanine Records.
December 06, 2023
First Listen
San Fermin Share a Song for Misfit Affection with “My Love Is a Loneliness”
The Brooklyn-based indie-rock collective’s fifth full-length, Arms, will arrive on February 16 via Better Company Records.
December 06, 2023
First Listen
MX Lonely Dream Up a Worst-Case Scenario for a Minor Injury in Video for New Single “Papercuts”
The Brooklyn group’s upcoming Spit EP arrives February 6 via Candlepin Records.
December 05, 2023
First Listen
Elephant Stone Share an Elegy for 2023 with New Single “Another Year Gone”
The track meanwhile looks ahead to 2024 when the Canadian neo-psych rockers will release their latest LP, Back Into the Dream.
December 05, 2023
Duran Duran, Interpol, Blondie, and More Announced for Cruel World Fest 2024
Focused on goth and new wave bands, the event will return to Pasadena on May 11.
December 04, 2023
54 Arguments for Naming Your New Music Project Something More Specific in 2024
From CHAI and CHAII to JayWood and Jay Wood, here are all the sets of artists we struggled to differentiate in 2023.
December 04, 2023
Track by Track
Haiku Hands Take Us Through Their Sensory New LP “Pleasure Beast” Track by Track
Out now via Spinning Top Records, the Australian electropop trio’s first LP since their 2020 debut is a cathartic post-pandemic return to the club.
December 01, 2023
First Listen
Bridget Kearney Meditates on Not Meditating on Meditation with New Single “Don’t Think About the Polar Bear”
The new track from the Lake Street Dive co-founder arrives with an animated video that certainly doesn’t help us not think about a polar bear.
December 01, 2023
Playlist
15 Songs That Made Hotline TNT’s Will Anderson Think It Was Cool to Be From the Twin Cities
Cartwheel, the no-longer-Minnesota-based songwriter’s sophomore album with the band, is out now via Third Man Records.
November 30, 2023
First Listen
Prism Bitch Are on the Air in the Video for New Single “City Nights”
The Albuquerque group embraces ’80s stadium pop and glam metal on the track, while its visual pays homage to the 1987 film Broadcast News.
November 30, 2023
Soccer Mommy
Abortion Access Benefit Live Music Event Will Return in 2024 with Sets From Soccer Mommy, Tim Heidecker, Frankie Cosmos, and More
Presented by Ground Control Touring and Noise for Now, the event will take place January 20 in LA, NYC, Chicago, Nashville, and Philly.
November 29, 2023
Essay
A Eulogy for “How to with John Wilson”
Wrapping up after its third season this past fall, the HBO docuseries provided an odd source of comfort in the post-pandemic world.
November 29, 2023
First Look
awakebutstillinbed Yearn for Re-Drawn Lines in New Animated Video for “Adapt”
Chaos Takes the Wheel and I Am a Passenger, the second LP from the San Jose punks, is out now via Tiny Engines.
November 29, 2023
Playlist
body / negative’s “everett” Influences Playlist
With their new LP dropping next week via Track Number Records, Andy Schiaffino shares a handful of shoegaze tones and ambient textures that steered their own songs’ direction.
November 28, 2023
First Listen
Little Kid Announce New LP “A Million Easy Payments” with Anxiety Anthem “Something to Say”
The latest release from the Toronto folk-rock collective lands February 23 via Orindal Records in the US and Gold Day Recordings in the UK.
November 28, 2023
Track by Track
sophie meiers Walks Us Through Their Cyborgian “Portal” EP Trilogy
crawl__space, spark__space, and shine__space are all out now via Epitaph Records.
November 27, 2023
Track by Track
Linying Walks Us Through Her Nomadic Dream Pop EP “House Mouse”
The Angeleno-by-way-of-Singaporean musician’s latest release is out today via Nettwerk.
November 17, 2023
First Listen
AKTHESAVIOR and sagun Combat Negativity on New Single “No Scars”
The Underachievers emcee will be teaming up with the Nepalese lo-fi producer for a full-length collaboration in 2024.
November 17, 2023
First Look
The Life Put a Body Together in Eerie Video for “The Sprawl”
The new music project from Curtis Everett Pawley, one half of cult film podcast The Ion Pack, releases its debut EP I Would Do Anything for Love tomorrow.
November 16, 2023
