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.
Ella Langley, Dandelion
The pop-country songwriter understands the human weight of the American South’s emotionally rich tableau of high-speed heartbreak and low-light bars, as demonstrated on a resilient second album.
Sugar Horse, Not a Sound in Heaven
On their cleanest-sounding record yet, the doomy Bristol band’s idea of dance music feels perfectly suitable for the turbulent year 2026 has already proven to be.
Lime Garden, Maybe Not Tonight
The cocktail of frustration, insecurity, and lust that courses through the Brighton quartet’s buzzing and adventurous second album mirrors the trajectory of an energetic night out.
Mike LeSuer
The title track from Evian’s forthcoming LP is brought to life with the help of a punk rock sibling and a bright New York afternoon.
On its tenth birthday, let’s look past its genre and appreciate the unrivaled visual flair, debilitatingly honest coming-of-age narrative, and anti-corporate rage of “Speed Racer,” a kids movie.
Rural Italy’s impish garage rock trio opt for misfit royalty over biscuits and loyalty in their cosmic new video.
Young Fathers’ newest addition to their stellar catalog is no exception—but there’s still one key question that needs to be addressed.
As the era of conscious backpack rap fades, Brian Immanuel’s debut “Amen” hints at a new wave of overly-self-conscious, Internet-savvy fanny pack rap.
Commemorating Animal Collective’s earnest stab at moving popular rock music forward and the nine bands that should be dictating the sounds of 2018.
Counting off five Hammers that are just so hyped.
Ruben Zarate’s surf pop project teases their yet-unannounced sophomore album with a new R&B-leaning single.
DC punk’s holiest emissaries belt out the cut from last year’s “Nothing Feels Natural.”
Just when you thought you could pigeonhole Ty Segall into just one entire decade of music.
Somewhere between Cage’s LaBeouf-directed “I Never Knew You” video and Brockhampton’s formation on a Kanye forum, something shifted. That something was almost definitely “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.”
The sludgy Boston three-piece offers up another preview of their forthcoming “Universal Care.”
With the backing of his Freedom Band, the insatiable riffer introduces his caustic anthem to the bright Oregon sun.
With a return to the OCS ethos, “Memory of a Cut Off Head” is a full house notably lacking a garage.
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.
Biography, allegory, and satire give voice to a severely misunderstood entity.
What we can learn about obsession, voyeurism, and coaxploitation from watching Jimmy Stewart watch TV.
Max Clarke teases his debut EP as Cut Worms.
Stuart Hyatt’s chiropteran (look it up) eighth album in the Field Works series arrives May 1.
Please join us March 8 at 5 p.m. for a special evening of food, drinks, screenings, and music in honor…
