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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PREMIERE: Cathedral Bells Warm the Dead in “Cemetery Surf” Video
Matt Messore’s dream pop project gigs a New Jersey graveyard before hitting the West Coast.
April 09, 2019
Film + TV
There’s a New Brian De Palma Movie But We Don’t Have the Energy to Watch the Trailer
Coppola, Scorsese, Spielberg, and De Palma all have new movies in production or slated for release later this year. Is it OK if we don’t really care?
April 05, 2019
WATCH: Pile Gets Confrontational in “The Soft Hands of Stephen Miller” Video
Rick Maguire takes on the ghoulish policy advisor in the video for the Boston rockers’ latest single.
April 04, 2019
Titus Andronicus Announce New LP “An Obelisk,” Blame Society
The heartland punk outfit teases their sixth album with a very enthusiastic video for lead single “(I Blame) Society.”
April 02, 2019
Film + TV
The Definitive Ranking of Movies with Two-Letter Titles
With “Us” hitting theaters last Friday, we’re ranking the ten most notable pioneering titles kept to two characters.
March 26, 2019
OK, I Guess It’s Time to Rank All Those Active-Verb Bands
It seems weird that we’re able to arrange a top-fifteen list of bands with one-word names ending in -ing, but we might as well do it…right?
March 14, 2019
19 September 2018ñ “The Faint” is photographed at their band space on 26th and Farnam.
The Faint Will Always Be Cut from the Saddle Creek Cloth
Todd Fink talks homework, “Egowerk,” and his band’s early emo work.
March 13, 2019
PREMIERE: Sonny & the Sunsets Share Their Sketchbook in “Someday I’d Like to Be an Artist” Video
The Sunsets provide an experimental soundtrack to the doodled thoughts of a teenaged Sonny Smith.
March 13, 2019
PREMIERE: Russian Baths Address Big Questions on “Parasite”
The Brooklyn noise rock duo gives us a first taste of their yet-untitled full-length debut.
March 12, 2019
“Hospice” at Ten: The Antlers Weren’t Cut Out for Fame, and That’s OK
Before they embark on an intimate anniversary tour, we revisit their third album and remember why they were no Bon Iver—which isn’t a bad thing.
March 07, 2019
Deafheaven Are at Their Heaviest on “Black Brick”
The popular (!) black metal group share a B-side too heavy for “OCHL.”
February 27, 2019
Film + TV
With “Roma” and “Happy as Lazzaro,” Netflix May Have Found a New Way of Reading Its Audience
The extremely Oscar nominated drama and its snubbed peer lead a new generation of content from the streaming service, which seems to focus on millennial passivity.
February 21, 2019
PREMIERE: Sharkmuffin Introduces “Serpentina,” the Star of Their New EP
Meet the space dominatrix inspired by a trip to AutoZone.
February 21, 2019
Film + TV
“Space Jam 2” Will Begin Filming This Summer
You don’t even need to ask—we’re all ready for this.
February 20, 2019
Denzel Curry Covers “Bulls on Parade” for Australian Radio
Florida man bravely steps into ring with Rage Against the Machine staple.
February 15, 2019
Let the Clatter Kill ’Em: P.O.S. Talks Ten Years of “Never Better”
On the last stop of his anniversary tour, the Doomtree rapper offers some insight into the evolution of his uniquely punk take on rap.
February 13, 2019
PLAYLIST: Thelma Shares Music for Pain, Rather Than About Pain
The Brooklyn songwriter compiles ten healing songs that helped her make the leap from guitar to synthesizer for her latest record.
February 08, 2019
Charly Bliss Announce “Young Enough,” Share “Capacity,” Brighten Day
The Japanese Breakfast–directed video precedes Brooklyn’s sugariest power pop quartet’s follow-up to “Guppy.”
February 06, 2019
Last Night Was the Perfect Super Bowl Halftime Show for 2003
A CGI Andy Serkis was the only thing missing from Super Bowl LIII’s accidental homage to sixteen years ago.
February 04, 2019
As Always, the New HEALTH Record Is Darker, Heavier, and Dirtier
Before the release of “VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR,” Jake Duzsik talks us through the many phases of his experimental noise rock band—and the single aesthetic that unifies them.
January 31, 2019
