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.
The Tubs, Hard Life
With its well-curated influences and almost uncomfortably human lyrics, the London jangle-punk quartet’s third LP finds charm and combustible energy in its intersection of bleakness and pep.
Pixies, Bossanova [2026 Remaster]
This newly manicured version of the alt-rockers’ ersatz-divisive 1990 LP is so well-executed from start to finish that it’s impossible to forget that you’re not listening to the original version.
Ezra Collective, Here Because of Hope
The UK jazz quintet are determined to heal while acknowledging pain on their soulful fourth LP of deeply jubilant, genre-bending, and compassionate odes to the enduring power of hope.
Mischa Pearlman
The experimental metal band’s sixth album relishes in the unexpected, containing some of their most extreme black-metal moments as well as some of their most tenderly fragile.
The “post-glacier” goblin-punks discuss their new album Daydream Indignation, Portland, Oregon’s flourishing music scene, and manifesting friendship.
The NYC indie-folk duo’s sixth album is a wonderful rumination on the perceived limitations of songcraft, using its 11 tracks to demonstrate the infinite approaches to universal themes.
Vocalist Coco Kinnon fills us in on the journey to making the Nashville-based pop-punk trio’s debut album My Apologies to the Chef sound “100 percent” their own.
These nine shelved recordings remain resplendent explosions of emotion and wonder 34 years later, despite the then-nascent Boston shoegazers clearly striving to find their sound.
The tender pain of Jojo Orme’s post-punk debut mostly maintains the sinister nature of its dual inspiration—suffering brought upon by war and through fractured relationships—quite well.
Recorded in 2001, originally released in 2010, and newly remastered, there’s a bristling energy that runs through this EP that maximizes the weird terror of these 16 bursts of grindcore.
The Acid Bath vocalist offers a cryptic introduction to 7 Songs for Spiders, his first solo release in 15 years.
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.
