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.
Kathryn Mohr, Carve
A product of the desolate environment in which it was made, the Bay Area experimentalist’s second album pairs bare-bones grunge with evocative field recordings.
Johnny Blue Skies & the Dark Clouds, Mutiny After Midnight
Capturing the perpetual boogie that makes his live show so impressive, Sturgill Simpson’s latest LP throws the throttle down, turns the choogle up, and stares the cold world dead in the eyes.
The Monochrome Set, Lotus Bridge
Poised, exotic, and engaging from start to finish, the English jangle-pop outfit’s unexpected delight of a 17th studio album is a magical soundtrack for this uncertain spring.
Mike LeSuer
The slacker-punks’ first track for their new label Trash Casual arrives ahead of a pair of upcoming local dates playing alongside Gustaf, Godcaster, and more.
Wolfed, Heaven Schmitt’s debut EP for Bayonet Records, is out October 25.
The cult noise-pop group teases their upcoming US tour and reissue of their 2003 LP Cats of the Wild: Volume Two.
The American-primitivist guitarist picks 15 songs that helped shape her debut album for Nonesuch Records, ranging from Aoife O’Donovan to J Dilla.
The open-ended single lands ahead of Emma Danner’s upcoming self-titled album, arriving November 1 via Danger Collective.
The songwriter fills in the gaps in between (in betweeze?) each song on their latest collection of change-focused recordings, out now via Stones Throw.
Citing Tegan & Sara, Rilo Kiley, Andy Shauf, and more as inspiration, the LA duo’s debut album is out now via Dangerbird.
The Seattle band’s debut album Psychotic Spew is set to arrive October 11 via Youth Riot Records.
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.
The animation team for Bob’s Burgers—for which Maxwell composes the soundtrack—brings the latest single from Nothingland to life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Californian songwriter and producer shares the latest single from his upcoming collaborative album with the cumbia band, Wake the Dead.
The West Coast punks’ fourth album lands five years after 2019’s Almost Free.
Evan Shornstein pairs the release of his new LP Windswept with further listening “for cooling and circulating air.”
The German indie-pop group shares the latest in a string of singles released through their new label, Nettwerk Music Group.
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.
