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.
Dua Saleh, Of Earth & Wires
The Sudanese-American songwriter’s second album blends R&B and electronic pop with spoken-word poetry to create a tapestry of lush sounds and mythic language.
Kraftwerk, Radio-Activity [50th Anniversary Edition]
This re-release presents a band that’s palatably gleeful to have figured out their formula with an astonishingly cohesive and weirdly poppy picture of a Cold War–fogged world.
Towa Bird, Gentleman
The shred-bending guitarist is out for blood on her second LP as she channels femme-punk fury and four-on-the-floor disco beats into songs aiming to bust the heads of the pop patriarchy.
Mike LeSuer
An investigation into the drought period between the genre’s rise in the UK in the early ’90s and its global resurgence in the early 2010, setting the groundwork for its recent mainstream crossover.
The slacker-punk anthem will be featured on the band’s upcoming third album Reality Star, out March 6 via TODO Records.
These covers capture the broad spectrum of artists who’ve inspired Jamie Stewart over the past 24 years—and prove that Xiu Xiu is able to even make Robyn sound unwaveringly dark.
The new single from the Rubblebucket co-founder will appear on their album And the Voice Said, dropping February 27 via Egghunt and Northern Spy.
Zion Battle’s debut album Buckaroo arrives February 13 via Mexican Summer.
The March 20 release date coincides with a spring US tour.
Autotelic, the Brooklyn indie punks’ debut for Tiny Engines, arrives February 6.
The collection drops January 30 via BMG alongside the season premiere.
The month-long set of dates supporting Chin Up Buttercup begins with sold-out shows in Ottawa, Montreal, and Brooklyn.
The Liberia-born folk songwriter breaks down his autobiographical new record, as well as the personal journey that inspired it.
Deradoorian and FearDorian, Triathlon and Marathon, Skegss and Legss, and more sets of artists that have surprisingly little in common.
Eva Link shares a second taste of her upcoming Every Good Story EP, dropping January 30 via the newly launched Bleak Enterprise label.
15 of the year’s most exciting under-the-radar releases.
The video for “Punk Rocky” features Winona Ryder and album collaborator Danny Elfman.
The group will return in 2026 with their guest-filled ninth album, The Mountain.
Collecting B-sides, demos, and other rarities, from Ty Segall, Charles Moothart, and Chad Ubovich’s heavy-psych band, Fuzz’s Fourth Dream is out now via In the Red Records.
billy woods and ELUCID share how Hemingway, Bed-Stuy spice shops, and oceanside reflection inspired the rap duo’s latest effort.
Her world tour in support of Lux will include 42 arena shows between March and September.
The artist formerly known as Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs shares how Marianne Faithfull, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kings of Convenience, and more helped embellish his new synthpop world.
Jean-Philip Grobler and Patti Beranek share one final track before releasing Fata Morgana: Dusk this Friday.
