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.
Gorillaz, The Mountain
Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s guest-packed ninth album is a different kind of Gorillaz record—frequently interior, occasionally existential, surprisingly heartfelt.
GENA, The Pleasure Is Yours
Karriem Riggins and Liv.e’s collaborative debut beautifully plays to both of their strengths, resulting in a colorful and delightfully laid-back collection of neo-soul and jazz-rap.
Iron & Wine, Hen’s Teeth
A heavier fraternal twin to 2024’s Light Verse, Sam Beam’s unlikely eighth album hums through the speakers like a quiet, sudden revelation.
Mischa Pearlman
Written through an older and wiser lens, the NYC hardcore punks’ new EP contains the same kind of ebullience that the band possessed when they last released material 25 years ago.
More of an immersive art installation than an album, this 90-minute drone project is every bit as moving as its pop predecessor despite feeling deliberately difficult.
Carré Callaway’s friend and collaborator Roger O’Donnell of The Cure fame is featured in the new clip, which was co-directed by Callaway.
With the Brooklyn band’s new album Closer To; out today via Equal Vision Records, frontman Julian Rosen takes us deeper into its heavy themes in a brief Q&A.
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.
