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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The sequel to the Britpop-era War Child comp couldn’t have arrived at a better time, with its guest-filled track list embodying the charity’s mission of healing in the midst of global violence.
Shabaka, Of the Earth
The spiritual jazz musician’s third solo album rejects the distant cosmos and murky recesses of history in favor of the strange melodies and wondrous rhythms of human existence.
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The sequel to the 2022 Album of the Year GRAMMY winner is another radical genre shape-shift for a pop star who refuses to settle for just another EDM album.
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Mediocre’s “Growth Eater” Influences Playlist
Citing Tegan & Sara, Rilo Kiley, Andy Shauf, and more as inspiration, the LA duo’s debut album is out now via Dangerbird.
September 27, 2024
First Listen
Black Ends Share an Anthem for the Hopeless with New Single “Pretend 2 Be (Protect Me)”
The Seattle band’s debut album Psychotic Spew is set to arrive October 11 via Youth Riot Records.
September 27, 2024
Track by Track
Jhelisa Celebrates 30 Years of “Galactica Rush” by Revisiting Her Acid-Jazz Debut Track by Track
The LP will be reissued on vinyl later this fall, with a remastered digital version (along with a touched-up “Friendly Pressure” music video) available to stream now.
September 26, 2024
First Listen
Chris Maxwell Celebrates Love in All Its Forms in Animated Video for New Single “I Declare”
The animation team for Bob’s Burgers—for which Maxwell composes the soundtrack—brings the latest single from Nothingland to life.
September 26, 2024
First Listen
Schande Become Noise-Rock Tricksters on New Single “Gregor MacGregor”
The group led by Thurston Moore Guitar Ensemble member Jen Chochinov will release their debut album Once Around this Friday via Moore’s Daydream Library Series.
September 25, 2024
Playlist
Bathe’s “Outside Voices” Playlist
Inside Voice(s): Side A, Devin Hobdy and Corey Smith-West’s follow-up to their 2021 debut album, is out now via MNRK Music Group.
September 24, 2024
First Listen
St. Lenox Offers a Rebuttal to J.D. Vance on New Single “Courtesan”
A couch-centric (and G-rated) visual for the track arrives ahead of Andrew Choi’s fifth album Ten Modern American Work Songs, out October 25 via Don Giovanni.
September 24, 2024
Director OverviewFilm & TV
A Thorough History of All of Francis Ford Coppola’s Most Personal Films to Date
With the epic Megalopolis inviting superlatives for the already-storied director, we look back on a few movies which—either by Coppola’s account or ours—preceded its likely autobiographical nature.
September 23, 2024
Non-Musical Influences
5 Non-Musical Influences on Tiny Gun’s Debut EP “No Worries If Not”
Comedian Kareem Rahma and his band all share how NYC, rote repetition, and the dumb philosophical parasites encountered in everyday life all helped shape their first-ever project together.
September 23, 2024
First Listen
Chuck Prophet and ¿Qiensave? Bring Us Into the Studio with Video for New Single “Red Sky Night”
The Californian songwriter and producer shares the latest single from his upcoming collaborative album with the cumbia band, Wake the Dead.
September 23, 2024
Track by Track
FIDLAR Walk Us Through Their Live-Show-Oriented New LP “Surviving the Dream”
The West Coast punks’ fourth album lands five years after 2019’s Almost Free.
September 20, 2024
Playlist
Photay’s Cool Temperatures Playlist
Evan Shornstein pairs the release of his new LP Windswept with further listening “for cooling and circulating air.”
September 20, 2024
First Listen
Rikas Bust Out the Comfort Food on New Single “Heartbreak Big Mac”
The German indie-pop group shares the latest in a string of singles released through their new label, Nettwerk Music Group.
September 19, 2024
Playlist
Little Bit’s “Do You Wanna Come to My Party?” Playlist
Ahead of her debut solo EP Talk a Blue Streak, Hannah Liuzzo shares her guestlist for the first soirée she throws when she finally gets that house in the Hollywood Hills.
September 18, 2024
First Look
Basically Nancy Share an Appropriately Gothic Black-and-White Video for “Wounds”
The Savannah-based rockers recently followed up their self-titled debut album with a Steve Albini–produced EP of the same title.
September 17, 2024
Playlist
Honeyglaze’s “Real Deal” Influences Playlist
Before releasing their sophomore album this Friday, the London trio shares how Warpaint, Scott Walker, Destiny’s Child, and more helped shape their vision.
September 16, 2024
First Look
Big Ups Look Back on Their Time Together with New Mini-Documentary “3 Parts Together”
Six years after disbanding, the NYC noise-rockers reunite to discuss their newly reissued debut album Eighteen Hours of Static, community, and their unique legacy.
September 16, 2024
First Listen
Matt Pond PA Recount the Perils of Life in the Catskills on New Single “Those Wings”
The new single featuring The Head and the Heart’s Jonathan Russell lands ahead of the band’s guest-heavy new album titled Winged Horse, which drops in January.
September 13, 2024
First Listen
EXUM Leans Into Eerie Outsider Folk on New Track “All My Days”
Former NFL player Antone Exum Jr. will release his new album hole on October 25, preceded by the sparse lead single.
September 13, 2024
First Listen
Morpho Studies the Astrophysics of a Relationship on Debut Single “Prism”
Chicago-based songwriter Kristyn Chapman will release her introductory EP Morpho Season on November 15 via Hit the North Records.
September 12, 2024
