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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Courtney Barnett, Creature of Habit
Still flatliningly deadpan, the Australian songwriter uses the back-and-forth fear of the new as a start point for further depth-diving and confession on her fourth solo album.
The Twilight Sad, It’s the Long Goodbye
The sixth album from the Scottish proponents of existential angst is centered around the intertwining duality of death and life, fueled in turn by feelings of despair, disbelief, and defiance.
deary, Birding
Sounding like a band well into their second decade of existence, the London-based dream-pop trio stretch each song on their debut without ever letting them overstay their welcome.
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PREMIERE: The Love Language Return to the Ether with “Castle in the Sky”
Stuart McLamb’s raucous lo-fi experiment makes up for lost time with two minutes of heavy, blissed-out pop in anticipation of the forthcoming “Baby Grand,” out August 3 via Merge.
May 22, 2018
PREMIERE: Peach Kelli Pop Conjure Dark Powers in “Black Magic” Video
The LA-via-Ottawa garage rock four-piece get spooky in the latest Gentle Leader preview.
May 17, 2018
PREMIERE: Sam Evian Celebrates Self-Acceptance in “You, Forever” Video
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.
May 16, 2018
Film + TV
Stop Steering and Start Driving: Ten Years Later, “Speed Racer” Is Still the Best Movie About Agency in the Era of Late Capitalism
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.
May 08, 2018
PREMIERE: Bee Bee Sea Assume the Throne in “This Dog is the King of the Losers” Video
Rural Italy’s impish garage rock trio opt for misfit royalty over biscuits and loyalty in their cosmic new video.
April 20, 2018
Can You Dance to Young Fathers?
Young Fathers’ newest addition to their stellar catalog is no exception—but there’s still one key question that needs to be addressed.
April 04, 2018
Rich Brian Offers a Glimpse at What a YouTube-Reared Generation of Rappers Looks Like
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.
March 22, 2018
Blatant Animal Collective Ripoff: On the Disappointingly Impermanent Influence of “Merriweather Post Pavilion”’s Washer Pop
Commemorating Animal Collective’s earnest stab at moving popular rock music forward and the nine bands that should be dictating the sounds of 2018.
March 12, 2018
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Things Called “Arm and Hammer,” Ranked
Counting off five Hammers that are just so hyped.
February 20, 2018
PREMIERE: Dante Elephante Leave Their Wireless Devices at Home on “Call Me (on the phone)”
Ruben Zarate’s surf pop project teases their yet-unannounced sophomore album with a new R&B-leaning single.
February 08, 2018
PREMIERE: Priests Bring Their Spooky Energy to Pickathon’s Slab Sessions with “Leila 20”
DC punk’s holiest emissaries belt out the cut from last year’s “Nothing Feels Natural.”
February 02, 2018
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Ty Segall, “Freedom’s Goblin”
Just when you thought you could pigeonhole Ty Segall into just one entire decade of music.
January 26, 2018
More Than Joke, Purpose: Did Das Racist Accidentally Fix Underground Hip-Hop?
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.”
January 10, 2018
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
