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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Minus the Bear Take Us Track by Track Through “Menos el Oso” for Its 20th Anniversary
The Seattle group have shared a deluxe version of their second record today, and will be performing it in full tomorrow night at their first show in seven years in their hometown.
August 22, 2025
First Listen
Steel Beans Preps Self-Titled Record for Anderson .Paak’s APESHIT Label with New Single “Stowaway”
A co-release with EMPIRE, the LP features collabs with .Paak and Queens of the Stone Age’s Troy Van Leeuwen.
August 22, 2025
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Glitterfox Look Back Fondly on Their House Show Days with New Single “Richie’s Party”
The long-running PNW outfit’s debut album Decoder arrives this Friday via Jealous Butcher.
August 20, 2025
First Listen
Worthitpurchase Struggle to Make Sense of the Modern World on New Single “Sideways”
The LA art-pop duo’s self-titled third album arrives October 3.
August 19, 2025
First Listen
Greg Freeman Brings the Riffs Door-to-Door in Video for New Single “Salesman”
The Vermont-based songwriter’s second album Burnover arrives this Friday via Transgressive/Canvasback Records.
August 19, 2025
Joyce Manor Channel 100 gecs, Lana Del Rey, and Peter Frampton on New Single
“All My Friends Are So Depressed” marks the pop-punk trio’s first new material since 2022’s 40 oz. to Fresno.
August 18, 2025
First Listen
Shallowater Express Their Weather-Related Anxieties on New Single “Sadie”
The seven-and-a-half-minute cut lands ahead of the Texan slowcore/post-rock trio’s second album God’s Gonna Give You a Million Dollars, arriving September 5.
August 18, 2025
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Delicate Steve Takes Us Back to the Future (Part III) in Video for New Track “Light of the World”
Steve Marion’s latest instrumental odyssey Luke’s Garage lands this Friday.
August 18, 2025
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Wifey Pen Their “Stacy’s Mom” with New Single “Mary Ann Leaves the Band”
The Brooklyn group’s new power-pop LP Wifey Material arrives September 26.
August 15, 2025
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Work Wife Share an Anthem of Big Feelings with “Big Parking Lot”
The Brooklyn-based folk rockers announce that their debut full-length Parade is set to arrive on October 30 via Born Losers.
August 15, 2025
First Listen
Grant Pavol Announces Third EP of 2025, Shares Video for Lead Single “Save Some Time”
Directed by Nara Avakian of Nara’s Room, the clip arrives ahead of the release of the EP of the same name next Friday.
August 14, 2025
Track by Track
Wombo Walk Us Through Their Formula-Altering New LP “Danger in Fives”
The post-punk experimentalists take us track-by-track through their fourth record, out now via Fire Talk.
August 13, 2025
First Listen
Google Earth Take Inspiration From Getting Stoned at an IMAX Screening on “Endless Corridor”
John Vanderslice and James Riotto will share their second album of glitchy art-pop on August 29.
August 13, 2025
First Listen
Alexa Rose Fights to Find Enchantment Again on New Single “Where the Magic Lives”
The Asheville-based songwriter shares that the track will appear on her newly announced LP Atmosphere, which drops October 31 via First City Artists.
August 13, 2025
Non-Musical Influences
5 Non-Musical Influences on Anamanaguchi’s Analog New Album “Anyway”
With the chiptune band’s third and most tactile record yet out now via Polyvinyl, they share how demolition derbies, fun hats, and the staircase at the American Football house all helped keep them inspired.
August 12, 2025
First Listen
James Barrett Previews New Chapter with Pop-Punk Jam “Fragile Assertion”
The track arrives ahead of a new LP planned for 2026, as well as the songwriter’s annual Good Things Are Happening fest set for September 6 in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
August 12, 2025
First Look
KennyHoopla Shares a Glimpse of the DIY Artist Lifestyle in New Video for “orphan//”
The fashion-focused visual lands ahead of the artist’s new EP conditions of an orphan//, out September 19 via The Orchard.
August 11, 2025
Lucy Dacus Returns with New Double Single in the Midst of “Forever Is a Feeling” Tour
“Bus Back to Richmond” and “More Than Friends” are now streaming, with a physical 7-inch release shipping in October.
August 08, 2025
First Listen
Fuck Money Take Aim at the Ruling Class and Their Misinformation Campaign on “Dead Man”
The Austin-based hardcore-punks will release their self-titled debut album on August 15 via Three One G.
August 07, 2025
Playlist
No Joy’s Songs That Will Hatch 100,000 Larvae Playlist
Jasamine White-Gluz shares how tracks by Underworld, Deerhunter, Type O Negative, and more also happen to have incubated her wildly experimental new album Bugland.
August 06, 2025
