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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This Is Lorelei, Holo Boy
Water From Your Eyes’ Nate Amos digs into his back catalog of nearly 70 releases shared over the last 12 years, revealing his humble beginnings and the seeds of last year’s breakout LP.
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here 50
This box set repackages the languid yet damaged follow-up to the band’s breakout success, with its true star being the massive-sounding bootleg of a 1975 live show at LA’s Sports Arena.
Blur, The Great Escape [30th Anniversary Edition]
Packed with era-appropriate B-sides, this release celebrates the Britpop quartet in their last gasp of opulent orchestration as they moved into lonely disillusionment and reserved distance.
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Say She She’s Playlist for the People
The punk-funk trio share how The Stylistics, The Isley Brothers, ESG, and more helped shape the sounds and politics of their latest single, “Disco Life.”
September 04, 2025
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Emily Yacina Pens an Ode to Intimacy with New Single “The Clearing”
Veilfall, the songwriter’s first album in six years, is out September 26.
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Pictureplane Shares a Goth-Trance Banger with “Weeping Sky”
Travis Egedy formally announces his new coldwave LP Sex Distortion with the project’s third single.
September 04, 2025
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Kadhja Bonet Takes on Your Least Favorite Billionaire with New Single “Don’t Count on Us”
The Toronto-based songwriter’s heated new indie-pop EP Battlewear will arrive on September 18.
September 03, 2025
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Pearly Drops Take Us Track by Track Through Their Fever-Dream New LP “The Voices Are Coming Back”
The Helsinki duo discusses tapping into Lynchian plotlines and mid-aughts new rave on their third record.
August 29, 2025
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Bones Shredder Reflects on One-Sided Relationships on New Single “Pulling Teeth”
Randy Moore’s debut solo album Morbid Little Thing will drop on September 19 via Sunken Teeth Records.
August 29, 2025
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Guck Are Figuring It All Out on Their Debut LP “Gucked Up”
Hear an early stream of the experimental noise-rockers’ new project before it drops tomorrow via Three One G.
August 28, 2025
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Modern Nature’s “The Heat Warps” Influences Playlist
Jack Cooper shares how Neil Young, J Dilla, Portishead, and more inspired the psych-folk collective’s fourth album.
August 27, 2025
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Bad Bad Hats Share Hippo Campus’ Hectic Take on “Midway”
The track arrives ahead of the covers-heavy 10th anniversary reissue of Bad Bad Hats’ album Psychic Reader, landing August 29.
August 26, 2025
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Golden Apples Achieve Creative Liberation on New Single “Freeeee”
The cathartic track lands ahead of the band’s new album Shooting Star, which lands September 19 via Lame-O.
August 26, 2025
Art & Culture
Gorillaz Set to Take the Virtual Stage at Fortnite Festival
Season 10 of the in-game event kicks off tomorrow.
August 25, 2025
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Winter’s “Adult Romantix” Influences Playlist
Samira Winter shares how Beach Fossils, Elliott Smith, Grouper, and more helped shape her transitory new dream-pop LP.
August 25, 2025
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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
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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
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The LA art-pop duo’s self-titled third album arrives October 3.
August 19, 2025
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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
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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
