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.
Tess McGeer
In big-hearted documentary “The Biggest Little Farm,” a married couple leave Los Angeles behind to cultivate greener pastures.
Or: an essay meant to exorcise from myself the urge to get Jenny Lewis bangs again.
As of February 7, The CW will have aired three hundred episodes of the show that is a mournful and unwieldy sonnet on the myth of American greatness.
