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
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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Fat Dog Are on a Time-Traveling Mission in Video for New Track “All the Same”
The buzzy South Londoners share their second single since signing to Domino last year.
January 08, 2024
First Listen
Planet B and Kent Osborne Build Tension on New Sci-Fi Single “Rack More Brains”
Justin Pearson’s synthpunk outfit will release their second LP Fiction Prediction on February 9 via Three One G Records.
January 04, 2024
Signal Boost
Signal Boost: 20 Albums From 2023 You Should Know
The year’s most discourse-worthy records, according to our Senior Editor.
January 02, 2024
First Listen
GHLOW Announce New LP “Levitate” with Jagged Industrial-Punk Single “Big City”
The Stockholm-based duo’s sophomore record will arrive March 8 via PNKSLM.
December 13, 2023
First Listen
Ecology: HomeStones Are Looking Out for All Non-Robert Entities in Surreal “Mothername” Video
The mysterious audio/visual noise project’s self-titled release lands this Friday via Sleeping Giant Glossolalia.
December 12, 2023
First Listen
HYPEMOM Go Full Wally Brando on New Single “Joanna”
The Brooklyn punk trio will release a new EP titled Has Reservations early next year.
December 12, 2023
First Listen
Liam Bailey Reflects on a Turbulent Childhood on Soulful New Single “Disorder Starts at Home”
The UK-based songwriter’s forthcoming El Michels Affair–produced LP Zero Grace lands February 23 through Big Crown Records.
December 11, 2023
Watch Matt Berninger and David Letterman Talk The National, Mental Health, and More
The conversation between the two titans of dad energy premiered this morning on the band’s YouTube page.
December 08, 2023
Playlist
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
