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.
Various artists, Red Xerox: Chicago Youth Beat 2020-2025
Spotlighting the diversity of Chicago’s underground scene, this comp is as much a symposium for genre-defying trailblazers as it is a no-skips playlists capturing the city’s budding youth-beat movement.
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.
Will Schube
The visual for the new track was directed by filmmaker Alex Ross Perry
The band has shared the project’s title track ahead of its April 19 release.
Written for pipe organ, choir, and brass quintet, the Stockholm-based minimalist’s latest collection still melds fluidly into a cohesive body of work conjuring visceral images of winter.
The artist’s fourth LP will arrive on April 5 via Sacred Bones.
Vocalist Julie Dawson shares how Madra—the Galway-based alt-rock quartet’s debut album—is a testament to their continued growth.
The single marks the songwriter’s first original music since 2022’s Mellow Moon LP.
Jumping from jazz-leaning grooves to smoky blues to fried country funk, the Omaha-based songwriter’s self-titled album with his backing band is at its best when it takes risks.
The group has shared a trailer for their first full-length since 2019’s Father of the Bride, which will arrive on April 5.
The new project is set to arrive on March 15 via Interscope Records.
Underdressed at the Symphony is set to arrive March 1 via Secretly Canadian.
The track will be featured on a deluxe edition of Polachek’s Desire, I Want to Turn Into You.
We last heard from the singer and actor when her 2018 LP Yesterday Was Forever coincided with a role in the TV series GLOW.
The album from the Portishead icon will arrive on May 17 via Domino Records.
Rollie Pemberton’s new album will arrive on April 19 via MNRK Music.
“Burial Ground,” the Portland group’s first new material since their 2018 I’ll Be Your Girl LP, features The Shins’ James Mercer on vocals.
Other artists set for the season include Jason Isbell, Sharon Van Etten, The Roots, Sylvan Esso, and Laufey.
The latest project from the TDE artist will arrive on March 1.
Lana Del Rey
The Jack Antonoff–produced project is set to arrive in September.
The project from the underground heroes will drop on February 14 via POW Recordings.
The band’s fifth record will arrive May 10 via Fat Possum.
