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.
The Durutti Column, Renascent
Sixteen long years since his last album, Vini Reilly makes a welcome return with a low-key album that’s still rich and lovely, unpretentious and open-hearted.
Shearwater, The New World
Jonathan Meiburg’s lyrical approach flits between apocalyptic soothsaying and naturalist poetry on his band’s ambitious and worldly eleventh album, which thrums with field recordings.
Ween, 12 Golden Country Greats [30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]
Embellished with over 20 unreleased demos and session outtakes, the brothers’ 1996 foray into country was as devoted to a single sound as they would ever be.
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Dan Wriggins talks community, everyday ephemera, and lobster fishing ahead of the Philly-based group’s debut album for Merge, Love the Stranger.
Hear an early stream of the Western Massachusetts ex-pat’s latest LP before it drops this Friday.
The Kali Uchis and John Carroll Kirby collaborator reclaims the witchcraft aesthetic with her soothing harp music.
The Bay Area (for now) five-piece offer up an early stream of their new LP, out tomorrow on Forged Artifacts.
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Mike Hadreas on his social distance-skirting vision for “Set My Heart on Fire Immediately.”
Johan Duncanson looks back on the Swedish duo’s shapeshifting breakthrough LP.
Stream “Heavenly Rhythms for the Uninitiated” before its Friday release.
George Clanton, Negative Gemini, Saint Pepsi, and more recount the origins of the vaporwave label that made it big—online and off.
Stream the LA dream pop band’s debut in full before its Friday release.
After their fourth album dissolved along with frontperson Jessica Boudreaux’s relationship, she wrote a record about reclaiming her personality.
With an HBO mini-series and a second retirement in their imminent future, the comedy troupe take us behind the scenes of their beloved act.
