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.
Cut Worms, Transmitter
Produced by Jeff Tweedy, Max Clarke’s fourth album tampers down the luster of past records, grounding aspects of the indie-folk songwriter’s music that once seemed impossibly pristine.
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.
Sean Fennell
Recorded in March of 2022 at Brooklyn Steel, this live album goes a long way in expressing both the charms and limitations of Will Toledo’s bedroom-pop project over a decade since its inception.
Sam Beam’s career-spanning live album serves as an antidote to passive engagement as it has a way of putting into focus just how much we’ve been overlooking the songwriter’s genius.
Jack Tatum discusses how past, present, and future intertwine on his pop-influenced fifth album under the moniker.
With the help of a killer team of collaborators, Ella Williams constructs something close to an entire universe within her third LP’s brief 34-minute runtime.
The post-punky four-piece’s third record and Sub Pop debut hurdles toward you at breakneck speed, clear mission in mind.
The third collection of solo recordings from Big Thief’s guitarist weaves the mystical and everyday while meticulously obscuring the reality of either.
A record of quiet contemplation and deceptive disorder, the virtuoso guitarist’s fourth solo album contains both all and none of what came before it.
El Kempner discusses bringing a punky, live-band energy to their latest album—which is ironically also their most intimate.
The alt-country songwriter discusses how the comfort of experience—and the discomfort of honesty—shaped his latest LP with his outfit The 400 Unit.
The further you dig into the Canadian songwriter’s newest collection of sunset-folk, the more you realize how hard it is to sound this casual—and how much of a joy it is to see an artist continue to come into their own.
Even when presented in one big, unwieldy mass of 54 songs, Jeff Mangum remains as beguiling as ever.
Finally, a film specifically for those of us who don’t regret our In the Aeroplane Over the Sea forearm tattoos.
With his first post–Okkervil River solo LP out now, the songwriter digs into how the record was shaped by letting go of preconceptions.
The songwriter’s latest is a compilation of sorts attempting to wrangle with Yacina’s impressively deep catalog.
This self-titled LP is as close as an album can come to a kind of VR experience: alive, fluid, breathing in an artform that typically feels far more passive.
The Brooklyn-based duo discuss taking the time to chase the best version of their sound on their debut for Polyvinyl Records.
Tempering hope but resisting despair, the Brighton quartet’s second album sounds far more nuanced and organic without losing any of the urgency.
We talked to Morby about his latest solo album, recording in Memphis, and the mysteries of photography.
The latest from the Philly-based group is an album rife with strength and conviction even in its most vulnerable and honest moments.
Like a math-rock inspired Beach House, the Seattle-based group create a vibe so pervasive it transcends vibes-inherent triviality.
