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.
Dry Cleaning, Secret Love
With the help of producer Cate Le Bon, the South London quartet’s third album sands down their jagged post-punk edges into smooth, surreal pebbles of magical realism.
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.
Mischa Pearlman
Executed with precision and grace, the group’s first release in over a decade blends the darkly political with the profoundly personal.
Militarie Gun at Stereogum Range Life party at Cheer Up Charlie’s
Ian Shelton discusses the various roads which led to the LA punks’ debut LP, Life Under the Gun.
The Phoenix folk-punks’ eighth LP feels more post-/mid-apocalyptic than foreshadowing of it while maintaining the band’s wonderful mix of pathos and humor.
The Canadian noise-punks’ fourth record is out now via Dine Alone Records.
The duo’s second album Bound to Be will arrive June 23.
Ceschi Ramos, Get Dead’s Sam King, and NOFX’s Fat Mike discuss their debut album This Is Crime Wave, which draws from their own experiences in the criminal justice system—and a sitcom-like housing situation.
The Santa Barbara by way of Philly songwriter takes us through his “post-apocalyptic Americana” opus track by track.
On his sophomore solo LP, the former Exitmusic member ponders the highs and lows of existence through somber, gravelly vocals.
With their new album Ten Stories High out today, the band also shares some of their biggest influences on the recording.
The Pittsburgh politipunks’ 13th studio album is a culmination of everything they’ve been singing about since forming back in the late-’80s.
These 15 covers of R&B and soul classics are treated with both the reverence they deserve on their own terms, and with which Springsteen also clearly holds for them.
Alex Magnan breaks down each track on the NYC-based trio’s latest, out now via Equal Vision.
This self-titled fifth album is the sound of Jim Ward both finding and re-finding himself, his heritage and future coalescing with mostly youthful ebullience.
The 11 songs that comprise the French experimental post-hardcore trio’s third album are magnified reflections of the grotesqueries of modern life and society.
Ahead of their headlining set at Austin’s Levitation Fest this weekend, Jim Reid reflects on 40 years of the Scottish band’s existence, and shares what may lie ahead.
A mix of punk, post-hardcore, grunge, and pop, the Baltimore trio’s debut is a stunning burst of influences and experiences coalescing in a swirling swathe of anger and injustice.
Eric Bachmann takes us deeper into the band’s first LP since 1998, out now via Merge.
The Massachusetts punks’ new album Dancer arrives November 4 via Pure Noise.
On her label debut, Corrinne James is still laying her vulnerabilities on the line in what sounds like the most intimate setting.
Geoff Rickly shares how the continuation of what looked like a one-off side-project allowed him to scratch an itch left untouched by the recent Thursday reunion.
