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.
REZN, Cycles in the Infinite Dream
After a decade together, the Chicago psych-doom quartet craft a second album for Sargent House that’s as deadly serious in story as it is execution.
The Creem, A Taste of Cherry
On their collaborative debut, Islands’ Nick Thorburn and Ratatat’s Mike Stroud mostly adhere to a conventional pop format and rarely deviate into either artist’s inherent weirdness.
Charli XCX, Music, Fashion, Film
The pop star’s guitar-strewn reset is the stuff of savage, searing power-pop with primal, minimalist rhythms and a hint of sleek, sizzling electronics.
Will Schube
Packaged with new artwork and a single bonus track, the main argument for this reissue’s existence is introducing Rashad to a new generation of dance, rap, electro, house, juke, and, yes, footwork fans.
Other artists set to perform at the SLC fest include Joanna Newsom, Interpol, and Wu-Tang Clan.
The track arrives ahead of a new Marianne Faithfull tribute compilation landing this Friday.
The song will be featured on a forthcoming album, according to an Instagram post from the Big Thief frontperson.
The Kansas-based production company is run by photographer Shawn Brackbill and Get Up Kids’ Rob and Ryan Pope.
The Jesus and March Chain at Levitation 2022 credit Daniel Cavazos
The shoegaze legends’ first LP in nearly seven years will arrive March 8 via Fuzz Club.
The track is featured on the Chicago emcee’s latest album.
The Hives
“Imagine a world where The Hives are playing every city all the time. That’s a world we want to live in,” the band wrote on Instagram.
Other artists set to perform at the Barcelona fest include Pulp, FKA twigs, Mitski, Charli XCX, and The National.
Arriving with a music video, the song was produced by the two artists alongside Sega Bodega.
On his ninth studio LP, the veteran emcee offers a parodical look into the corporate mealy-mouthed hollowness that has enveloped so much of our culture.
The group is currently performing a residency at The Garage in London.
It’s part of a bigger reproductive rights campaign of art actions that Pussy Riot is launching in 2024.
The Irish rap trio has also announced a slew of 2024 North American tour dates.
Both tracks are accompanied by videos directed by Ben Mehlman.
New Blue Sun will arrive this Friday, November 17.
Zach Condon discusses how the Norwegian municipality that lends its name to his first LP since canceling his Gallipoli tour in 2019 plays into a new era of healing and self-discovery.
Said TLE founder Jared Mees of the signing, “Nisa is the best kind of enigma. Her songs are complex yet catchy.”
After playing the Foos’ But Here We Are single together on SNL last month, a 7-inch double A-side of the studio recording will arrive on December 29 following its digital release this Friday.
Luke Temple’s third record under the pseudonym is out now via Western Vinyl.
