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.
Kacey Musgraves, Middle of Nowhere
Awash in twang and thick pedal steel, the country star’s seventh album explores the solitary no man’s land that exists between the ending of one relationship and the beginning of another.
Kneecap, Fenian
With bigger melodies and broader synth soundscapes, the rage-rave rap trio’s second LP takes an unexpected turn inward as they continue to take the politics of the world at large to task.
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Penetratingly exact and proudly undefinable, Nick Llobet’s first album since expanding the project to a duo adds more definition to the sinewy, searching palette of their previous material.
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The months’ most discourse-worthy singles, according to our Senior Editor.
The track arrives with a pensive music video ahead of the duo’s debut album Light Moving Time, out October 28 via Double Double Whammy.
With her debut EP Juvenilia arriving this week, the experimental rapper shares 17 tracks she aligns with.
The track arrives ahead of the LA-based group’s upcoming fall tour with The Joy Formidable.
With the album out now via Saddle Creek, John Rossiter shares the books that helped shape all eight tracks.
Recorded back in March, the live video arrives in the wake of the band’s sophomore LP Vestli.
Mourning Ritual, Seb Alvarez’s debut solo LP of experimental metal, is out October 14.
The experimental post-rock duo’s new album GOING drops October 7.
Mt. Surreal, the Swiss group’s first album in nearly a decade, arrives this Friday via Exploding in Sound.
The single arrives ahead of Kristin Slipp and Cole Kamen-Green’s debut album, expected out next year.
And in the Darkness, Hearts Glow will arrive November 18 via Sub Pop.
The doomy single arrives ahead of the Fog mastermind’s The Show Original Soundtrack LP, dropping October 7 via Lex Records.
Alexander Rieth takes us track by track through the Arizona-based post-metal band’s sophomore album.
The first single from his RCA debut, “Jesus Freak Lighter,” is now streaming.
The day before Linkous would’ve turned 60, the duo’s cover arrives ahead of their latest album You’ve Got Love (But It Even Tears You Apart).
Arriving October 21, Tristen Colby’s new EP Adore Me was mixed by JEFF the Brotherhood’s Jake Orall.
Tickets go on sale this Friday for the set of North American dates kicking off mid-November.
The wrestling-themed Exploding in Sound signees will release Hell in a Cell on October 21.
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“Cement” is the first taste of the Hooded Fang vocalist’s latest solo project, out October 28 via Telephone Explosion.
The Portland-based power-pop prodigy breaks down each song on his debut for Lame-O Records.
