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.
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.
Mike LeSuer
The month’s most discourse-worthy singles, according to our Senior Editor.
Frank Ocean / photo by Joyce Jude
The fest’s co-founder Paul Tollett assures us the scheduled 2020 headliners will still take the stage—just not in the same year.
The Bloomington neo-soul group’s latest album is out now via Dead Oceans and Coalmine Records.
photo by Coley Brown
The single follows a handful of one-off tracks and collaborations, most recently appearing on Rostam’s “Changephobia” LP.
The new single follows “I Am Who I Think You Think I Am,” the band’s first new music in two years, which was released last month.
The track arrives ahead of the LA experimental rockers’ remixed version of “Enjoy Yourself,” which drops August 6 via Plastic Smiles.
The visual arrives ahead of the two-year anniversary cassette reissue of their debut LP “The Natural World,” arriving August 30 via Moon Physics.
“Everything Is Broken, Maybe That’s O.K.” arrives September 17 via Shea Stadium Records and Freeman Street.
The LA-based songwriter’s debut album will arrive later this year along with a pair of West Coast dates alongside George Clanton, Negative Gemini, and Magdalena Bay.
The Indianapolis rapper offers a preview of his latest release, out tomorrow via Near Mint Records.
The visual accompanies a track from the electronic musician’s recently released debut album, “Daymaker.”
“City of Police” marks the Chicago post-punks’ first release with Exploding in Sound Records.
The VIDEOTAPEMUSIC-directed clip soundtracks the track from Abe’s debut solo LP “Fantasia.”
The collaboration between the NYC emcee and Phoenixville producer is out today via Coalmine Records.
The Philly ska revivalists’ new track arrives ahead of their LP “Nice One,” out August 6.
Nick Levine reveals a playlist of influences on their debut record, out this Friday via Sooper Records.
The track arrives ahead of “Loudmouth,” the Minneapolis four-piece’s album due out July 30 via Get Better Records.
It’s the first new recording from the Atlanta garage rockers since 2018’s “Back to the City” LP.
Read Blakely’s track-by-track breakdown of the project, officially out this Friday via Exploding in Sound.
“What Luck, Goodbye” arrives ahead of the Dirt Buyer vocalist’s album, out August 13 via Danger Collective.
