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.
Kim Gordon, Play Me
Fully embracing the trashy SoundCloud-era internet aesthetic as she raps, sings, and shreds over industrial clatter, this is the sound of an artist who’s still inspired by the cutting edge at 72.
The Notwist, News From Planet Zombie
This folksy, brassy new iteration of the German trio excels at melodies that yearn and churn with melancholy—yet still manages something celebratory.
Minnesota Artists United Against ICE, Melt ICE
This gigantic comp album featuring 110 Minnesotan artists raising funds for immigrant communities terrorized by ICE may also happen to be where you find your new favorite band.
Natasha Aftandilians
Beck at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles / photo by Natasha Aftandilians
This weekend was something of a homecoming for Beck Hansen; the forty-four-year-old Angeleno played two back-to-back shows at downtown Los Angeles’s Orpheum Theatre, where his hometown fans were treated to a two-hour set spanning a twenty-year career as varied and unpredictable as the man himself.
2014; photo credit Tobias Centerwall
Amason—a five-piece comprised of members of Miike Snow, Dungen, Little Majorette, Hajen, and Idiot Wind—has a roster that reads like…
Still from SBTRKT “Look Away” interactive site
SBTRKT (the masked alter-ego of Brit musician Aaron Jerome) has released an eerie, interactive music video website into the world for his new track “Look Away” featuring Caroline Polachek of Chairlift on vocals.
2014. Ariel Pink press photo by Sasha Eisenman.
The L.A. artist releases modern love letter with new track, “Put Your Number In My Phone.”
Photo by Natasha Aftandilians
The Art of Elysium’s sixth-annual Genesis fundraiser was a collaboration of epic proportions between some of the art world’s biggest names and promising musicians, all for the cause of healing the world through art.
2014. “Jimi: All Is By My Side” trailer
André Benjamin (better known to us as Outkast’s André 3000) is having a busy 2014—he and Outkast comrade Big Boi…
2014. Wye Oak press photo by Shervin Lainez
Wye Oak have released the latest single “Logic of Color” from their excellent album Shriek, and it’s full of the…
The new video for Nick Waterhouse’s “Sleeping Pills” (off his new album Holly) will either make you nostalgic for the…
photo by Jeff Elstone
Zola Jesus’s new album is titled Taiga. For those of you who don’t remember learning about biomes in middle school,…
