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.
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.
MEMORIALS, All Clouds Bring Not Rain
The genre-hopping fifth LP from Verity Susman and Matthew Simms is more ornate and ambitious than their earlier material, though ultimately the whole is lesser than the sum of the parts.
Filth Is Eternal, Impossible World
Vibrant, dexterous, and unrelentingly compelling, the Seattle hardcore-punks’ fourth album sees them mature into a band adept at writing songs lasting more than two minutes.
Mischa Pearlman
Bryan Stage and Andy Marshall’s experimental project shares the first taste of their new LP Person, which documents a failed relationship from beginning to end.
The Dinosaur Jr. frontman’s fourth solo album is haunted and melancholic, wistful and naively questioning—Mascis at his finest.
With a feature from Cat Clyde, the single arrives with news of a new LP from Kensrue titled Desert Dreaming.
Opening the vault on the late songwriter’s live recordings, Kramer’s Shimmy-Disc label repurposes Johnston’s most ramshackle analog sounds for the streaming era.
Blasted, the Portland punks’ first album in five years, arrives February 9 via Fat Wreck Chords.
The debut LP from the Brooklyn rockers is made with care and precision—it’s as much about the spaces between the songs as it is about the songs themselves.
The hyper-political Chicago hardcore outfit’s second post-reunion record is marked by a restlessness so powerful you can almost hear the effects of systemic oppression within its songs.
The Rochester punks share a new track alongside the news of their SideOneDummy debut My Life in Subtitles arriving March 22.
Newly remastered and packaged with a rare 1999 live performance, the alt-rock icons’ debut record as a trio remains perfectly in tune with the world—both musically and lyrically.
The heartland-punks’ first record in nine years takes influence from both before their hiatus and from vocalist Brian Fallon’s recent solo work, though never in any predictable fashion.
The queer-pop sibling duo’s debut album Continue? arrives December 1.
The Scranton punks mostly nail the balance between nostalgia and pure emotion on their seventh LP, if occasionally coming across as Menzingers-by-numbers.
In lieu of the soft folk sound Elliott Smith came to be known for, this collection of rarities from his mid-’90s band harnesses punk and grunge while embracing the recklessness of youth.
The LA metal quartet’s third album Thrones lands October 13 via RidingEasy Records.
The new project featuring Farside’s Popeye Vogelsang and members of Don’t Sleep will release November 10 via Revelation Records.
The Phoenix-based songwriter puts her songwriting personality front and center on her sophomore record, once again writing about heartache for all the right reasons.
The NOFX vocalist previews his surprisingly beautiful collection of string arrangements in collaboration with Baz the Frenchman before the LP officially drops this Friday.
With new reissues of Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs, and Franks Wild Years out now, we revisit the songwriting icon’s mid-career run when he leaned into his eccentricities—and changed the course of his career as a result.
Former Cymbals Eat Guitars vocalist Joseph D’Agostino’s second album with the project arrives November 3 via Get Better Records (and Tough Love Recs in the UK).
Charlotte McCaslin goes deep on a record about coming to terms with being a living thing in a dying world.
