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.
Boys Noize, 7LLVSION
Made bigger and brawnier by his recent collaboration with Nine Inch Nails, the German-Iraqi electronic producer’s first new solo album in five years proves the most maximal of his career.
Catherine Elicson, River of Fat
Quietly defiant and beautifully insular, the Empath vocalist’s solo debut is a capsule of self-discovery and experimentation outside the confines of any kind of relationship structure.
Bad Brains, Are You Ready
With these raw recordings from 1979, the DC band provides a glimpse into the birth of modern hardcore-punk—which would be far more exciting if we didn’t already have the incendiary Black Dots collection.
Randy Bookasta
Tierra Whack, James Blake, and Jason Isbell take on covers by the likes of Radiohead, Roxy Music, and John Prine.
The band members took turns curating picks from the extensive online archive.
On his birthday, an unearthed Ziggy Stardust show preview and video from Bowie’s historic American debut.
The track is from “400 Miles From L.A. 1955-56,” a new collection featuring the first known recordings of Hazlewood singing his own material.
The Cure at Pasadena Daydream Festival in CA. August 31, 2019. Photo by David Iskra
The music fest curated by Robert Smith also featured Throwing Muses, Chelsea Wolfe, and Mogwai.
The track is from her upcoming “This Is Better Pt. 1” EP.
The brilliant singer-songwriter passed away today at age seventy-six.
