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.
Agnes Obel, The Meaning of Flowers
Inspired by the birth of her first child, the Danish artist’s fifth album also pulls heavily from poetry and literature to build on her gorgeous, piano-forward classical-pop sound.
The Frogs, My Daughter the Broad [30th Anniversary Edition]
Originally released on Matador in 1996, this expanded version of the Milwaukee duo’s third LP of deliberately provocative slacker-rock emphasizes the unexpected tenderness at its center.
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.
Mischa Pearlman
The Spanish artist known for his deranged—but brightly colored!—comics talks police brutality, Facebook, and traveling in the US.
photo by Joe Dilworth
Class warfare, civil rights, Donald Trump: That’s not the whole story.
An exhilarating journey into one of contemporary music’s most inventive and eccentric bands.
While “Trouble Maker” is far from a political record, its songs certainly exist within the fragile framework of America in 2017.
Comprising eleven downtrodden, sunken-hearted, minor-chord songs, Big Thief’s sophomore album traverses the dark side of humanity, but pairs the despair with a ragged beauty.
A more than welcome addition to—and expansion of—the Hold Steady frontman’s catalog.
Everything Sleaford Mods say in these twelve songs is thoroughly valid and, frankly, needs to be said.
It’s not the second coming of “The Sophtware Slump.” But it also isn’t trying to be.
Singing the praises of the undersung singer-songwriter.
On his solo debut, the Ought frontman embarks on his own personal exploration of sounds and genres, ideas and influences.
The LA native’s debut is an escape route from Trump’s America into an alternative and rose-tinted reality.
The four members of The Menzingers have all hit their thirties. “After the Party” confronts that reality and all the realizations that come along with it.
The Arrival composer gives voice to an unlikely subject: himself.
Beyond the big hits, R.E.M.’s seventh album is a record full of nuances, a record that matched the quantity of units sold with the quality of its songwriting.
Natalie Mering’s newest release straddles the world we inhabit and the marvels we imagine beyond it.
Darkness and light battle it out in M.C. Taylor’s latest.
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On the whole, Beach Slang’s sheer joy at just being alive should bring a smile to the most cynical minds and the most jaded of hearts.
The minimalistic, ice-cold production of Splendor & Misery feels like it’s been pulled back into the present from the future.
The British duo venture across the Atlantic to work with Matthew E. White at his Spacebomb Studios.
“Joshy” / photo courtesy Lionsgate Premiere
Thomas Middleditch and half of your favorite comic actors come together for a non-bachelor party.
