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.
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Anna Calvi, Is This All There Is?
The British songwriter returns with a four-song EP defined by theatrical arrangements and an actorish guest list featuring Iggy Pop, Laurie Anderson, Perfume Genius, and Matt Berninger.
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.
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Toro y Moi Returns with Two New Songs, “Hollywood” with Ben Gibbard and “CD-R”
Both tracks will appear on Chaz Bear’s Hole Erth, which is set to arrive on September 6 via Dead Oceans.
August 07, 2024
ELUCID Announces “Revelator” LP, Recruits billy woods for “Instant Transfer”
The Armand Hammer member’s new album will arrive on October 11 via Fat Possum.
August 07, 2024
Adrianne Lenker Returns with “Bright Future” B-Side “Once a Bunch”
The track originally appeared on the Japanese edition of the Big Thief vocalist’s LP from earlier this year.
August 06, 2024
Track by Track
MESSIAH! Breaks Down His Penetrating New LP “the villain wins” Track by Track
The Charlotte emcee and MAVI collaborator walks us through the freestyles and narrative-driven opuses of his latest project.
August 02, 2024
Track by Track
WHY? Untangles the Non-Linear Narrative of New LP “The Well I Fell Into”
The conceptual new project from Yoni Wolf is out now via Waterlines.
August 02, 2024
First Listen
Bootsy Collins Brings the Funk (Duh) on New Single “Pure Perfection”
His new LP, Album of the Year #1 Funkateer, will arrive on October 25.
August 02, 2024
JPEGMAFIA Shares New Album “I Lay Down My Life for You”
The LP features Vince Staples, Denzel Curry, and Buzzy Lee.
August 01, 2024
If a New Foxing Single Gets Played to an Empty Conference Room, Does It Still Make a Sound?
The epic, eight-minute “Greyhound” lands ahead of the band’s self-titled record, which is set to be released on September 13.
August 01, 2024
Soccer Mommy Is Back with “M,” Preps New LP “Evergreen”
Sophie Allison’s sixth album will arrive on October 25 via Loma Vista.
August 01, 2024
Snail Mail Drops Cover of Smashing Pumpkins’ “Tonight, Tonight”
Lindsey Jordan recorded the song for I Saw the TV Glow.
July 31, 2024
Father John Misty Preps Greatest Hits Collection, Shares New Track “I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All”
Greatish Hits will arrive on August 16 via Sub Pop.
July 31, 2024
Jack White’s New Album Is Coming to Third Man Tomorrow, and to Record Stores and Also Your Laptop the Day After That
No Name has been randomly appearing in shoppers’ bags at Third Man Records over the past week.
July 31, 2024
Jamie xx Recruits The Avalanches for New Single “All Your Children”
The producer’s new album will arrive on September 20 via Young.
July 30, 2024
Christopher Owens of Girls Returns with Triumphant New Single “I Think About Heaven”
The song marks the songwriter’s first new recording in seven years.
July 30, 2024
First Listen
Pearl & the Oysters Go Full Depressed-Disco on New Single “Big Time”
The duo’s newly announced album Planet Pearl will arrive via Stones Throw on September 20.
July 30, 2024
In Conversation
Empire of the Sun on Rebuilding Everything for “Ask That God”
Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore share how their first album in eight years is a celebration of the project’s history—and an optimistic look at their future.
July 26, 2024
Track by Track
Crack Cloud Welcome Us Into the Communal World of “Red Mile”
The Canadian art-punk collective talk balancing “juvenile delinquency with a sense of mature introspection” on their third record, out now via Jagjaguwar.
July 26, 2024
Hemlock Ernst Announces New LP “Studying Absence,” Shares “Raised in the South”
The new project from Future Islands’ Samuel T. Herring and Icky Reels will arrive on October 16.
July 25, 2024
De La Soul Announce “Oodles of O’s” Donut Pop-Up in NYC
The event is scheduled for July 26 in the East Village.
July 25, 2024
mxmtoon Returns with Lone Star Smackdown “i hate texas”
The track is set to be featured on Maia’s soon-to-be-announced third album.
July 25, 2024
