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.
HEALTH, Conflict DLC
The noise-rockers’ sixth LP is a full-on rush of nihilistic energy, a shattered disco ball serving as the perfect encapsulation of a world decimated by capitalistic greed at the expense of humanity.
Fucked Up, Year of the Goat
Made up of two nearly half-hour tracks, the hardcore experimentalists’ latest is artistically commendable and consistently intriguing, even if it tends to test the listener’s patience.
This Is Lorelei, Holo Boy
Water From Your Eyes’ Nate Amos digs into his back catalog of nearly 70 releases shared over the last 12 years, revealing his humble beginnings and the seeds of last year’s breakout LP.
Mischa Pearlman
The noise-rockers’ sixth LP is a full-on rush of nihilistic energy, a shattered disco ball serving as the perfect encapsulation of a world decimated by capitalistic greed at the expense of humanity.
The Manchester-based quartet dissect the personal and global atrocities that informed their emotionally and improvisatory led debut album, Pain to Power.
Recorded live, the Santa Cruz thrash/hardcore crossover trio’s third album is their best encapsulation of their live show’s infectious feel-good energy.
With their internal flame far from being snuffed out, the shapeshifting Californians’ 12th album sounds like a forgotten golden age of new wave.
If last year’s Weird Faith was a response to the uncertainty that inspired it, these songs are a profound expression of the emotions unleashed when those fears ultimately came true.
Vocalist Sonia Sturino and bassist Annie Hoffman discuss the unique backstory behind their third LP Feels Like Hell and learning to write songs that just feel good.
Retitled This Shit Is Geniuser, the collection originally released in 1999 features EPs and 7-inch singles from the punk band’s early days, along with a few added tracks from later in their career.
The Phoenix-based songwriter breaks down each song about touring, panic attacks, desperation, and simply wanting another Long Island iced tea.
Rising with the recent wave of Britpop revivalism, the London outfit’s post-punky tenth album is an absolute dark delight that bristles with tension and post-apocalyptic energy.
The heaviness of the emo/post-rock outfit’s fifth and most metallic album isn’t just in the music this time around—it’s also in the words, themes, and intent of the record.
BELIEVEYOUME, the Kansas City post-hardcore band’s second album since their 2015 reunion, arrives September 26 via Spartan Records.
Tim McIlrath shares how the punk band’s newly released tenth album Ricochet aims to match the disruptive political energy of the times.
The instrumental project featuring members of Against Me! and Gracer have also put physical copies of their new EP of the same name up for pre-order.
With her career-spanning retrospective Palimpsesa out now via Topshelf, the songwriter assures us that this compilation serves as something very far from an ending.
Harrowing and fun in equal measure, the Ontario groups’ fifth record is a deliberate return to their raw punk ’n’ roll roots with a newfound sense of vulnerability lying beneath all the noise.
The Canadian alt-pop artist discusses her sixth LP A6, feeling connected to her younger self, and learning to live in the moment.
Each song on the Louisville-based gothic-Americana band’s final album is its own requiem, a tender farewell accepting of its fate.
The Philadelphia-based group take us deeper into the thrilling narrative conclusion of their third album of prog-metal experimentation, out now via Equal Vision.
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.
On their second LP, the Dublin trio weave through belligerent post-punk and quasi-industrial aesthetics, manipulating song structures and having fun with atonal soundscapes.
