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.
Boys Noize, 7LLVSION
Made bigger and brawnier by his recent collaboration with Nine Inch Nails, the German-Iraqi electronic producer’s first new solo album in five years proves the most maximal of his career.
Catherine Elicson, River of Fat
Quietly defiant and beautifully insular, the Empath vocalist’s solo debut is a capsule of self-discovery and experimentation outside the confines of any kind of relationship structure.
Bad Brains, Are You Ready
With these raw recordings from 1979, the DC band provides a glimpse into the birth of modern hardcore-punk—which would be far more exciting if we didn’t already have the incendiary Black Dots collection.
Mike LeSuer
Norwegian synth-pop songwriter Nora Schjelderup will release her second album, Dance Therapy, on March 21 via Mute Records.
The collection, aptly titled The Villagers Companion, arrives February 21 and will also feature covers of John Prine and Mecca Normal tracks.
Ironically, the Vancouver collective feels rejuvenated on the first track to be shared from their latest record, The Open Up.
On January 24, Gary Hustwit’s regenerative Eno documentary will be livestreamed in several iterations along with Q&As with the film’s crew and other special guests.
Eternal Reverie, the producer’s first new LP since 2020, arrives March 7 via her own Young Art Records.
The seriously unserious UK rockers’ third album Boys These Days arrives May 23.
Chrystia Cabral’s newly announced album of the same name drops March 28 via Sacred Bones.
The experimental rap project shares a new single called “Change the Channel” ahead of the LP’s March 14 release via Sub Pop.
The year’s most discourse-worthy experimental metal records, according to our Senior Editor.
The Animal Collective co-founder’s first solo album in six years, Sinister Grift, is out February 28 via Domino.
The year’s most discourse-worthy records, according to our Senior Editor.
The doomy post-punk band’s fourth album Dweller lands January 10 via Three One G Records.
Led by current Built to Spill bassist Melanie Radford, the trio’s Petite Deaths EP is scheduled to arrive January 17 via Moon Ruins.
Reinterpreting 2022’s Profound Mysteries triple album, the new project aims to “underline the importance of critical thinking and curious pondering.”
“Dreamwalking” lands ahead of the collaborators’ ode to LA (and dance music), landing February 28 via Nettwerk.
It’s the second teaser from the Venezuelan post-hardcore group’s first English-language LP, Was It Medicine to You?, out January 9 via Born Losers.
The indie-pop quartet will release their new LP Shy at First on March 14.
The single lands ahead of the South African pop-rapper’s third LP Full Moon, dropping January 10 via Transgressive.
The songwriter’s first new material since her 2022 debut solo record is out via Last Gang/MNRK.
From Horsegirl and horsegiirL to TisaKorean and TiaCorine, here are some of 2024’s most indistinguishable sets of artist names.
