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.
Silversun Pickups, Tenterhooks
Largely eschewing the distortion-doused approach of their early material, the dreamy LA rockers’ seventh record is a cohesive body of work rather than a gumball machine for singles.
Ulrika Spacek, EXPO
The London quintet’s fourth LP takes their previous psychedelic wanderings into more abstract territory as it paints a painfully honest portrait of modern fracture and isolation.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Howl [20th Anniversary Edition]
The garage-psych trio honor the underappreciated third album that gave them a second wind with a three-LP set featuring a photo album, handwritten lyrics, and more goodies from the era.
Mike LeSuer
The Toronto noise-rock group’s self-titled debut album lands October 1 via Cooked Raw.
Before returning with their first album in eight years, the PA post-hardcore band catches us up to date on what they’ve been listening to for inspiration.
The songwriter’s debut full-length The Academy will be released on September 20 via Winspear.
The single arrives with the news of the group’s debut LP I’M SORRY I DIDN’T BITE MY TONGUE, out October 25 via Share It Music.
The Chicago-via-Portland group shares how their latest EP of gothic post-punk was actually fueled by Jamaican dancehall greats.
It’s the weirdly heartwarming title track from the post-hardcore group’s doomy fifth album, which arrives next Friday via Exploding in Sound.
Vancouver-based songwriter Kylie Van Slyke reveals that the track will appear on her sophomore record Crash Test Plane, arriving November 15 via Royal Mountain.
Joe Stevens shares how Steve Reich and NYC’s Natural History Museum helped shape the sound of the band’s fourth album, out now via Topshelf Records.
The ever-adventurous neo-psych band shares how Chet Baker, Alice Coltrane, Tchaikovsky, and more helped shape their latest release, out this week via Bella Union.
Halifax-based songwriter Graham Ereaux introduces us to the cozy world of his forthcoming Heart Shaped Rock LP, arriving October 4 via Paper Bag Records.
The Atlanta metal group will be releasing a new EP on October 18 titled Dehiscence.
The final installment in the group’s The Heart, The Mind, The Soul EP trilogy also drops today with the release of the Robert Glasper–producer The Soul.
Jill Sullivan shares a visual for her recent anthem dedicated to all those idiots we have to share the road with.
On the heels of their own diss track “Writing Out a List of All the Names of God,” the Leeds band shares nine tracks that turn being a hater into an art form.
The London-based guitar-rock quartet share how everything from cooking to GTA: Vice City inspired their sophomore album, which arrives this week via City Slang.
The single teases a new release from the former Celebration vocalist.
The single arrives with the news that the Philadelphia-based group’s self-titled debut EP is arriving September 26 via Crafted Sounds.
K Nkanza shares how French house music, British dance-punk, and whatever you might classify Mew as helped shape their latest LP.
A video for the latest single from the LA collective’s new album Free Energy also includes the sax-heavy preceding track, “Opaline Bubbletear.”
The project featuring members of The Wonder Years and Mannequin Pussy will release their sophomore EP Positions of Power on September 3 via Born Losers.
