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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Warning, Rituals of Shame
The pummeling hypnotism of the doom-metal band’s first new material in 20 years still feels perfectly matched to Patrick Walker’s pained howls and Vantablack-hued emotions.
Styrofoam Winos, Any River
The Nashville group’s country-leaning third album is full of nuance, from the sheer array of instrumentation to its affective emotional dynamics.
Swamp Dogg, Swamp Dogg Contemplates the Afterlife
The country-R&B cult hero crafts an album about the afterlife that’s reflective of decades filled with hurt and hurting.
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PREMIERE: Kal Marks Thaws Out on “Today I Walked…”
The sludgy Boston three-piece offers up another preview of their forthcoming “Universal Care.”
January 08, 2018
PREMIERE: Ty Segall Melts Faces with “Warm Hands” for Pickathon’s Slab Sessions
With the backing of his Freedom Band, the insatiable riffer introduces his caustic anthem to the bright Oregon sun.
December 01, 2017
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OCS, “Memory of a Cut Off Head”
With a return to the OCS ethos, “Memory of a Cut Off Head” is a full house notably lacking a garage.
November 27, 2017
PREMIERE: Sonny Smith Gets Lost in “Pictures of You” Video
The West Coast garage rock icon goes solo for Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound label on the forthcoming “Rod for Your Love,” grows nostalgic in video for first single.
November 10, 2017
Film + TVStaff Picks
But What Do They Really Do in the Shadows?: A Brief History of Empathy in Vampire Film
Biography, allegory, and satire give voice to a severely misunderstood entity.
October 27, 2017
Film + TVStaff Picks
Reconsidering Rear Window Ethics in TV’s First Golden Age
What we can learn about obsession, voyeurism, and coaxploitation from watching Jimmy Stewart watch TV.
October 19, 2017
PREMIERE: Cut Worms Pays Tribute to Lou Reed on “Song of the Highest Tower”
Max Clarke teases his debut EP as Cut Worms.
October 12, 2017
PREMIERE: Hear Kelly Moran’s New Single “Sodalis” from Field Works’ “Ultrasonic”
Stuart Hyatt’s chiropteran (look it up) eighth album in the Field Works series arrives May 1.
March 06, 1920
RSVP: Levi’s #IShapeMyWorld @ Studio 525
Please join us March 8 at 5 p.m. for a special evening of food, drinks, screenings, and music in honor…
March 04, 1919
RSVP: In Conversation with Roy Choi
Roy Choi talks with Evan Kleiman, host of KCRW’s “Good Food.”
December 13, 1918
