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.
Wishy, Nature’s Pill
The guitar-pop group expands upon their 2024 debut with a more relaxed effort emphasizing a stronger interplay between two co-vocalists who remain a match made in college-rock heaven.
Leon Bridges, Happiness Anytime
Continuing to defy expectations, the Texan R&B songwriter heads for the London dancefloor on a joyful collaboration with acid-jazz outfit Jungle.
Hermanos Gutiérrez, Los Ojos del Cóndor
Dedicated to the instrumental folk duo’s father, their forlorn cinematic expanse is given greater breadth and interwoven liveliness on their seventh LP.
Taylor Ruckle
The Four Horsemen will ride on the DC emo band’s latest project, Harbinger, arriving October 23 via We’re Trying Records.
On an emotionally explosive fourth album of catchy quips about crime scenes, the Toronto jangle-pop band shifts from light-hearted procedural stuff to grisly noir.
The DC indie-pop songwriter will release her new EP Bull Rider on September 4.
Titled after a Buddhist metaphor for the restlessness of a worried brain, the LA-via-Paris duo’s sixth LP sees them bend already-surreal daily life through their heightened, psychedelic prism.
The Seattle band mashes up Millennial malaise with ’80s synthpunk and biting satire on a playful second LP that crowds out the more emotional elements with terminally online irony.
The Philly indie rockers take stock of everything on the shelves with a revitalized fifth LP that feels like a lifetime of growth reaching a critical mass.
The LA-based songwriter talks expanding on the TikTok virality of her song “Massachussetts” and overcoming love’s control with her sophomore album, I Don’t Know How but They Found Me!.
The Chicago-based songwriter wields change like a sword, toting bigger choruses, bolder orchestration, and more chromatic feelings as she reflects on the transitory nature of everything.
Elise Okusami approaches her third album with clenched-fist determination, confidently belting and riffing through these 11 songs with the full weight of the album title in her hands.
The debut from Open Mike Eagle, Still Rift, and Video Dave is a full-length meditation on middle age, memory, and the parallel histories of commercial hip-hop and brick-and-mortar business.
The new collection of recordings benefitting the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund will arrive June 28 via Gardenhead Records.
This essential document of the new wave band’s arc as they perfected their fusion of melancholy and club music gets a no-strings-attached remaster in its ideal double-LP form.
Maybe covering everyone’s least favorite Billy Joel song is just a safer, more grown up version of airing out your most embarrassing feelings.
Caroline Weinroth’s newly announced EP I Want You will arrive September 22.
On their sophomore LP, the Montreal dream-pop outfit slims down while leveling up the tension and unease.
The bedroom-pop duo dive into dub and ska on the new track from their forthcoming Chant EP.
The shape-shifting experimental artist’s sixth LP strips back some of their last effort’s retro glam flashiness, but for once Tumor focuses on refining rather than reinventing.
Steven Perez and co-producer Malcolm Martin offer a track-by-track breakdown of the project, out now via Citrus City Records.
It’s the first track from Liz Lehman’s upcoming LP Retinal Bloom, out May 26 via Needlejuice Records.
The LA-based garage rockers’ latest EP Is This Where the Party Is? arrives May 19.
