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.
Various artists, Passages: Artists in Solidarity with Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers
These unheard tracks from Dirty Projectors, Daniel Lopatin, and more are hushed and raw, all crafted with the idea of evoking a sense of home to highlight those whose own are at risk.
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.
Mischa Pearlman
The Circa Survive vocalist’s latest solo release sees him turn all his pained experience and existential torment into a gorgeous soundtrack to pure, distilled feeling.
There’s a real darkness holding the quiet hush of the Brooklyn-based duo’s debut full-length together, which reveals a deep pain and trauma if you pay attention.
The West Coast punks’ 1980 debut full-length stands as both an important historical document and a necessary, contemporary reflection of the world today.
This self-titled record takes The Mars Volta in the most unexpected of directions as it firmly shakes off any preconceptions of what this band is or ever was.
The fifth full-length from the Baltimore post-hardcore outfit is a beautifully bleak yet overwhelmingly comforting examination of life.
Despite being a record about feeling stuck, the Norwegian trio’s sophomore LP shimmers with an infectious freedom and inexorable vitality.
Carré Callaway’s latest is a brilliant testament to human endurance, to battling extreme adversity, to keeping going when you really don’t want to.
Ramesh Srivastava discusses self-growth, making big statements, and reviving the band after 12 years.
While this motley crew surely had no idea of the profound impact their songs would go on to have on alternative music and culture, this 1982 debut EP nevertheless sounds revolutionary, vital, important.
It’s the cumulative effect of the Austin rockers’ 11th LP that makes this album what it is: an interdimensional fever dream that reinvents the entire history of modern music.
The latest from the Cincinnati-based folk songwriter captures the extremes of the human experience, the highs and lows of being alive.
The songwriter’s 18th LP is a haunted concept album that brings to life the tired hearts, souls, and minds of characters based in a distant, perhaps parallel, past.
The Austrian political-punk four-piece’s unfortunately timely third record is out now via Hassle Records.
The Ontario punks’ sixth full-length New Ruin is out August 5 via Fat Wreck Records.
Barry Johnson talks blending past and present on 40 oz. to Fresno, and how curiosity continues to fuel the West Coast pop-punk outfit.
The band’s fourth full-length is a powerful homage to the good, the bad, and the stasis of smalltown America.
Bird’s 13th full-length is a delirious journey into a world that’s both recognizable and exaggerated, half-real and half-fictional.
For her sixth full-length, Olsen has erected a country-tinged shield around the heart of her songs which often makes them feel more like pastiche than a sincere effort at conveying her usual heartfelt emotion.
The 13 songs on the Chicago trio’s fourth album conjure up memories of the kind of childhood you see in movies, the kind of love that you’ve dreamed of forever but never had.
The Philly-based songwriter’s latest solo release is a deeply personal, revealing, and vulnerable collection of songs that sounds like hearts breaking for eternity.
