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.
Of Montreal, Aethermead
Kevin Barnes rallies something bracingly emotional on their 20th album in 30 years, sounding more crisply, contagiously, singularly psychedelic than they have in ages.
Olivia Rodrigo, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love
Teetering between the influences of ’80s new wave and ’90s alt-rock, the pop star’s third album is a journey from jubilant lovesickness to a fatalistic collapse into romantic decay.
Goose, Big Modern!
At once their most even-keeled and explosively hook-crowded album yet, the jam-grinding ensemble’s latest is a stretch toward something uniquely slick and end-timey.
Mike LeSuer
After teasing new music this week, the pair are sharing “4EVA,” their debut collaborative single under the moniker, which features Pharrell Williams.
The Seattle grunge rockers riff on the worm-brain conservatism of the post-COVID era on their first album in five years, out now via Sub Pop.
The Brooklyn-based trio’s second album Vital Return will arrive August 18 via Good Eye Records.
Alexandra Lily Cohen’s sophomore album Apparition will arrive June 9 via Grind Select.
Co-written by The National’s Matt Berninger, the single serves as the title track to the songwriter’s first album in eight years which arrives tomorrow via Arts & Crafts.
The track precedes the dark-folk songwriter’s new album No Masters in Paradise, arriving in May.
Jonny Pierce will be hitting the road this summer for an extensive North American tour.
The months’ most discourse-worthy singles, according to our Senior Editor.
The East Coast rapper follows up his Punk Goes Drill+** tape with another alt-rock interpolation.
The single arrives with the news that the Seattle group’s fourth album Levitator will arrive June 2 via Nine Mile Records.
Meredith Johnston’s new LP Hometown Hero is out tomorrow.
The track will appear on the LA-based hip-hop duo’s debut album age of scorpio.
It’s the title track from their forthcoming sophomore album, arriving April 21.
Arriving with a self-directed video, the track will appear on Tyler’s newly revealed Call Me If You Get Lost deluxe edition arriving this Friday.
William Tyler joins the Portland-based songwriter on his latest single from Western Sky, out May 12 via Arrowhawk Records.
Roz Raskin’s sophomore LP create myself arrives this Friday via Community Records.
It’s the title track from the Athens psych-rockers’ sophomore album, out May 5 via Fire Records.
The track arrives with the news that their latest album This and Other Gestures will arrive June 2.
An Evening at Macri Park, his debut LP for Kill Rock Stars, is out May 12.
Thom Yorke, The Smile
Alvvays, Weyes Blood, King Krule, and Kelela are among the other artists rounding out the lineup for the Chicago fest scheduled for the weekend of July 21.
