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.
Allison Russell, In the Hour of Chaos
Clearly written in the pressure cooker of Trump’s America, the artist’s community-oriented third album battles the darkness with an at-times overwhelming sense of optimism.
The Rolling Stones, Foreign Tongues
The Stones come as close as they ever will to reckoning with their twilight years on a surprisingly effective 25th LP that finds them bringing a fresh spark to their signature sound.
Kelela, New Avatar
The songwriter’s earliest soul and jazz influences can be found swirling throughout her third album, which also expands into the realms of hypnotic electronic music and alt rock.
Mike LeSuer
Talking to Vulture, the songwriter says a new record will be out “sometime in a few months, I guess.”
The project featuring members of Grooms, Russian Baths, and Field Mouse will release “Unmask Whoever” on March 27.
On the record’s eleventh birthday (they know), the group shares previously unreleased live recordings.
Conor Oberst’s band is announcing their first live shows in nine years, as well as their signing to Dead Oceans.
The Albany punks share their first new music since 2018.
The duo’s fourth album, “Always Tomorrow,” drops February 21 via Concord Records.
The Toronto party punks’ fiery new single makes it look like “Beetlejuice started a band in an insane asylum.”
The electro-glam songwriter sets a live-show staple to record on the occasion of an upcoming tour with Temples.
*Bernie voice* Let me thank the Strange Rangers for their music.
“Away Team” is the first full-length from the Nashville grunge band, and it’s out February 28.
“Oasis Nocturno” will be out March 20 via the producer’s own Young Art Records, preceding a U.S. tour.
Sophie Allison announces new LP “color theory” with an Atiba Jefferson–directed visual.
Nick Thorburn, Lance Bangs, Allison Crutchfield, Mike Krol, and more will help the writer bring his script to life.
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“Overtime” teases Meg Remy’s seventh album, out March 6 on 4AD.
The “Hyperspace” single gets a funky reworking courtesy of Annie Clark.
The Grammy-nominated metalcore group’s fourth LP is slated for release on March 13.
The soul band will share the stage with The Raconteurs this Saturday on PBS.
Mac DeMarco / photo by Adam Maresca
The event will take place at Teragram Ballroom on Valentine’s Day, with all proceeds going to Planned Parenthood.
Remembering forgotten bangers from Cloud Nothings, Fang Island, Japandroids, and more on their tenth birthday.
The chamber folk group’s anticipated fourth album arrives April 24 via ATO Records.
