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.
Maya Hawke, Maitreya Corso
The actress and songwriter’s barely older, mostly wiser, and more wearily symbolic follow-up to 2024’s Chaos Angel sketches her commitments to love beyond the boundaries of her usual big ideas.
American Football, American Football (LP4)
Further expanding the majesty and swell of their sound, the Midwest emo icons’ widescreen fourth LP flows with darkness, morbidity, emotional distress, and a newfound sense of hope.
Failure, Location Lost
The spacey grunge trio’s fourth post-reunion LP avoids trends in favor of songs that penetrate the heart—it’s as if they’ve finally found the magic they’ve had in themselves from the start.
Will Schube
Julien Baker boygenius at MSG credit Skylar Watkins
The boygenius member and solo artist will be performing multiple nights in each city she visits.
Do not get Thom Yorke started.
Both tracks will appear on Chaz Bear’s Hole Erth, which is set to arrive on September 6 via Dead Oceans.
The Armand Hammer member’s new album will arrive on October 11 via Fat Possum.
The track originally appeared on the Japanese edition of the Big Thief vocalist’s LP from earlier this year.
The Charlotte emcee and MAVI collaborator walks us through the freestyles and narrative-driven opuses of his latest project.
The conceptual new project from Yoni Wolf is out now via Waterlines.
His new LP, Album of the Year #1 Funkateer, will arrive on October 25.
The LP features Vince Staples, Denzel Curry, and Buzzy Lee.
The epic, eight-minute “Greyhound” lands ahead of the band’s self-titled record, which is set to be released on September 13.
Sophie Allison’s sixth album will arrive on October 25 via Loma Vista.
Lindsey Jordan recorded the song for I Saw the TV Glow.
Greatish Hits will arrive on August 16 via Sub Pop.
No Name has been randomly appearing in shoppers’ bags at Third Man Records over the past week.
The producer’s new album will arrive on September 20 via Young.
The song marks the songwriter’s first new recording in seven years.
The duo’s newly announced album Planet Pearl will arrive via Stones Throw on September 20.
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.
The Canadian art-punk collective talk balancing “juvenile delinquency with a sense of mature introspection” on their third record, out now via Jagjaguwar.
The new project from Future Islands’ Samuel T. Herring and Icky Reels will arrive on October 16.
