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.
youbet, youbet
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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ratbag’s Down the Rabbit Hole Playlist
Following the release of her first single of 2024, the songwriter and visual artist shares a collection of “songs that send her somewhere else.”
August 16, 2024
First Listen
Anthers Bring an Appropriate Amount of Heaviness to “Mabel,” a Song About Cutting Ties
The Seattle trio’s debut EP Pedigree Pig will be released on September 20.
August 16, 2024
Playlist
Delicate Steve’s “Great Music: Pass It On” Playlist
Delicate Steve Sings, guitarist Steve Marion’s new record of instrumental covers and original compositions, is out this Friday via ANTI-.
August 14, 2024
First Listen
Little Hag Begs to Get Eternal-Sunshined on New Track “Suck Out the Pain”
The latest album from the project fronted by Avery Mandeville, Now That’s What I Call Little Hag, is out August 23 on Bar/None Records.
August 14, 2024
First Listen
Oreo Jones Invites You to Kick Back with a Pre-Roll on New Single “Dorothy Dandridge in E Minor”
The Indianapolis emcee’s new album NEPHEW will arrive September 20 via Joyful Noise offshoot Church of Noise Records.
August 13, 2024
First Listen
Current Joys Write a Love Song They Don’t Want to Live with “They Shoot Horses”
Surf Curse’s Nick Rattigan will release his latest solo record, East My Love, on October 11 via Secretly Canadian.
August 13, 2024
First Listen
knitting Search for Their Lucky Charm on New Single “Heaven”
The Montreal quartet’s debut album Some Kind of Heaven arrives September 6 via Mint Records.
August 13, 2024
First Listen
Nara’s Room Meditate on Alienation with New Singles “Holden” and “Waiting for the z”
The Brooklyn trio’s new grungegaze LP Glassy star arrives October 18 via Mtn Laurel Recordings.
August 12, 2024
Track by Track
Air’s JB Dunckel Breaks Down Each Track on His Ballet Score “Möbius Morphosis”
With the soundtrack out now on vinyl, the composer shares how each recording aims to reflect the movement on stage.
August 09, 2024
First Listen
Michael Love Michael Returns with New LP “Bruiser,” Shares Second Single “Deer”
The Britney-meets-NIN track arrives with a Blair Witch-meets-Midsommar visual ahead of the songwriter’s latest album, out October 4 via Get Better Records.
August 08, 2024
First Listen
Nicole Marxen Share an Early Stream of Her Haunting Debut LP “Thorns”
Following her 2021 EP Tether, the Dallas-based gothic-rock songwriter’s debut LP officially drops tomorrow.
August 08, 2024
First Listen
Naked Roommate Take in the Rhythm of the City on New Single “Bus”
The Oakland-based synth-punk ensemble’s second album Pass the Loofah will arrive on October 25 via Trouble in Mind.
August 07, 2024
Non-Musical Influences
5 Non-Musical Influences on Font’s Debut Album “Strange Burden”
From dance and film to superstition and the uncanny, the Austin-based quartet share the ideas that fueled their new dance-punk LP.
August 06, 2024
First Listen
Divine Sweater Step Into Their New Selves on New Single “Light Taker”
The Boston dream-pop collective’s latest album A Time for Everything arrives September 13 via Better Company Records.
August 06, 2024
First Listen
Adeline Hotel Gets to the Bottom of a Dissolved Relationship on New Single “Whodunnit”
Dan Knishkowy reveals that his new album of the same name will arrive September 27 via Ruination Records.
August 05, 2024
First Listen
Video Age Reimagine Their “Away From the Castle” Title Track as a Duet with Esther Rose
Retitled “Out in the Country,” the track arrives with a visual of Rose and Video Age’s Ross Farbe performing live in Nashville.
August 05, 2024
Killer Mike Puts a Cap on His “Michael” Era with New LP “Songs for Sinners & Saints”
The LP released under the moniker Michael & the Mighty Midnight Revival is out now as a free download.
August 02, 2024
First Listen
Euphoria Again Shares a Song About Moving on with “Sky Remembers”
Waiting on Time to Fly, John Klein’s third album under the slacker-folk moniker, is out November 15 via Born Losers.
August 02, 2024
First Listen
Spirit Night Returns with New LP “Time Won’t Tell,” Shares Lead Single “Darker Now”
Dylan Balliett’s follow-up to last August’s Bury the Dead arrives October 4.
August 02, 2024
First Listen
Spiral XP Soundtrack Their Own Demise in the Video for New Track “Luna”
The Seattle-based shoegazers are also sharing that their debut album I Wish I Was a Rat will be out October 18 via Danger Collective.
August 01, 2024
