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.
Boys Noize, 7LLVSION
Made bigger and brawnier by his recent collaboration with Nine Inch Nails, the German-Iraqi electronic producer’s first new solo album in five years proves the most maximal of his career.
Catherine Elicson, River of Fat
Quietly defiant and beautifully insular, the Empath vocalist’s solo debut is a capsule of self-discovery and experimentation outside the confines of any kind of relationship structure.
Bad Brains, Are You Ready
With these raw recordings from 1979, the DC band provides a glimpse into the birth of modern hardcore-punk—which would be far more exciting if we didn’t already have the incendiary Black Dots collection.
Mischa Pearlman
Lagwagon’s Joey Cape discusses his pop-punk project’s return nearly two decades after their last album with these reworked versions of old songs.
This new era of evident Dire Straits influence builds on and redefines the Hot Water Music vocalist’s legacy and reputation as a songwriter.
Carl Shane’s anxiety about becoming a parent in this American dystopia has inspired a particularly dystopian set of noise-rock songs—as well as a newfound desperation to break free.
With the emo/jazz band returning with their first album in 20 years, frontman Geoff Farina walks us through 15 tracks that have helped shape the group’s vision from the beginning.
Named in reference to the death toll in Gaza, the post-rock pioneers’ ninth full-length sounds like a requiem to the world as it is today—albeit one permeated by rays of occasional light.
Frontman Justin Buschardt also talks revisiting the track from the band’s debut album, as well as the early material they plan on releasing in a new compilation.
Sitting more in the pop-rap space than anything Low previously explored, Sparhawk’s solo debut is as much about the joy of creation as it is the sorrow that preceded it.
The joyful punk-rock explosion that is John Reis’ latest LP serves as a fitting send-off for his longtime partner-in-crime, Rick Froberg.
Avery Mandeville’s third album balances nuance, humor, and heart while leading her New Jersey band through everything from stadium pop to broken-hearted country to cathartic grunge.
Leading up to their second LP, birdwatching, Briana Wright and Joey Duffy tell us how their latest track plays into the record’s broader theme of self-improvement in a deteriorating world.
With the indie label that launched the careers of DFA 1979, Metric, and more celebrating two decades, we spoke with label manager Chris Moncada about how they’ve grown without really changing at all.
The new supergroup featuring members of Mineral, Boys Life, Christie Front Drive, and more will release their self-titled debut on August 30 via Spartan Records.
The long-running New Jersey emo project harks back to the desperate, youthful energy of their earliest output with more profundity, introspection, and consideration in their lyrics.
The Birmingham-based songwriter’s latest is an intense tug of war between light and dark, which ultimately soundtracks the healing of scars and the gathering of strength.
The native New Yorkers (for now) will release A Paradoxical Theory of Change, their sophomore album for Fat Wreck Chords, on June 28.
Returning to his roots in jazz, the songwriter revisits familiar standards of the genre with a perfect combination of respect and reinvention.
The debut solo album from Portishead’s vocalist poignantly straddles a divide between the bucolic and the experimental, past and the present, youth and older age.
The punk outfit’s hallmarks remain as powerful as ever on their guest-heavy tenth record, which feels less like a swan song than a reassertion of intent.
The Pernice Brothers and Grandaddy songwriters share a profound love of biking, so we got the pair to talk about that. And they did. A lot.
Brian McTernan’s hardcore endeavor shares their first new music since their 2022 Hello Sun EP, with both tracks out now via Equal Vision Records.
