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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Anna Calvi, Is This All There Is?
The British songwriter returns with a four-song EP defined by theatrical arrangements and an actorish guest list featuring Iggy Pop, Laurie Anderson, Perfume Genius, and Matt Berninger.
Various artists, Red Xerox: Chicago Youth Beat 2020-2025
Spotlighting the diversity of Chicago’s underground scene, this comp is as much a symposium for genre-defying trailblazers as it is a no-skips playlists capturing the city’s budding youth-beat movement.
Cut Worms, Transmitter
Produced by Jeff Tweedy, Max Clarke’s fourth album tampers down the luster of past records, grounding aspects of the indie-folk songwriter’s music that once seemed impossibly pristine.
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Black Moth Super Rainbow Walk Us Through Their Characteristically Disorienting New LP “Soft New Magic Dream”
Tom Fec shares how each song on the band’s first new album in eight years “took either years or a few days” to write.
June 06, 2025
Track by Track
CIVIC Walk Us Through Each Track on Their New Noise-Rock Death March “Chrome Dipped”
The Australian group’s third LP is out today via ATO Records.
May 30, 2025
First Listen
Imaad Wasif Teams Up with Best Coast’s Bobb Bruno and Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Brian Chase for Bonnie “Prince” Billy Cover
“I See a Darkness” marks the first new music released through Wasif’s Voidist Records, which will now be home to the artist’s back catalog.
May 30, 2025
First Listen
Yumi Zouma Find Strength in Simplicity on New Single “Blister”
The Y2K-invoking track serves as the indie-pop group’s second release via their new label home of Nettwerk Music Group.
May 29, 2025
First Listen
81355 Share a Poem for the Unsung with “Heart of Stone”
A video for the track lands ahead of emcees Oreo Jones and Sirius Blvck and producer Sedcairn’s second album, Bad Dogs, dropping July 11 via Joyful Noise.
May 28, 2025
First Look
Sarah Register Adds Another Dimension to “Does It Hurt” with Experimental Visual
Formerly one half of Talk Normal, Register’s debut double-single is out now.
May 27, 2025
Non-Musical Influences
5 Non-Musical Influences on Sparks’ Idiosyncratic New LP “MAD!”
Ron Mael shares which cultural figures and Parisian neighborhoods may have subtly shaded the duo’s 26th album.
May 23, 2025
First Look
S.3.R (Divino Niño’s Camilo Medina) Syncs to the Psychedelic Rhythms of NYC in “Abismo del Horror” Visual
Out today, his experimental debut solo EP N?C succinctly encapsulates his recent relocation from Chicago to New York City.
May 23, 2025
First Listen
Goon Dip Into Screamo on Their Homage to Tonys Gwynn and Soprano, “Patsy’s Twin”
The LA band’s serpentine third record Dream 3 is out July 11 via Born Losers Records.
May 22, 2025
First Listen
Clara Joy Philosophizes on Individualism Within a Technocracy on New Single “You Just Liked My Item”
The NYC-based songwriter’s Kramer co-produced new album What We Have Now arrives this week via Shimmy-Disc.
May 21, 2025
U.S. Girls Pay Homage to James Brown, Try to Get RuPaul’s Attention with New Single “Like James Said”
Meg Remy answers a few questions about the latest single from her new album recorded with a full band in Nashville, Scratch It.
May 20, 2025
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Wilby Undergoes a Collaborative Healing Journey on New Single “Experiments”
Maria Crawford’s new country-tinged track follows the single “Pleaser” she released back in March.
May 20, 2025
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Vines Reflects on the Discomfort of Healing on New Single “Evicted”
The track serves as the lead single for Cassie Wieland’s debut album, I’ll be here, which arrives July 18.
May 19, 2025
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Kerosene Heights Announce SideOneDummy Signing with New Single “Waste My Time”
The Asheville pop-punks are gearing up for summer tours with Michael Cera Palin, Dikembe, and Equipment.
May 19, 2025
Track by Track
Cautious Clay Walks Us Through His Routine-Oriented New LP “The Hours: Morning”
The songwriter’s mini-album focusing on each hour of the morning is out today via Concord.
May 16, 2025
Track by Track
Miso Extra Breaks Down the “Euphoric Exhaustion” of Her Debut Album “Earcandy”
The Japanese-British artist takes us track by track through the nu-R&B of her follow up to 2023’s MSG EP.
May 16, 2025
First Listen
Slow Joy Shares a Desperate Love Song with “Te Amo”
Esteban Flores’s debut album A Joy So Slow at Times I Don’t Think It’s Coming drops tomorrow via Mick Music.
May 15, 2025
First Listen
Pretty Rude Hold a Conversation with Their Past Selves in Visual for New Track “The Caller”
James Palko’s project will release their debut album Ripe this Friday via SideOneDummy.
May 15, 2025
Reviews
Youth Code, “Yours, with Malice”
The EBM duo continues to test new waters with their debut EP for metalcore label Sumerian, inviting experimentation on each of these five bone-rattling recordings.
May 14, 2025
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Mourning [A] BLKstar’s “Flowers for the Living” Influences Playlist
The psych-soul septet shares how Sly and the Family Stone, Modest Mouse, Nala Sinephro, and more helped inspire their latest improvisatory LP, out this week via Don Giovanni.
May 14, 2025
