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
Dave Grohl also shared a lengthy note about the new release.
The Verve vocalist is also gearing up for his tour with Oasis.
Past + Future = Present is set for August 16 and September 20.
The Wu-Tang star’s new LP will arrive on July 18.
Their new LP Sister will arrive on September 12.
Other artists set to perform in Austin on October 31 and November 1 include Black Moth Super Rainbow, Black Lips, and Lightning Bolt.
Born from the ashes of 2000s LA art-punks The Mae Shi, frontman Tim Byron coyly details that outfit’s next chapter.
Tariq Al-Sabir and Eva Tolkin also appear on Dev Hynes’ first new track in three years.
The duo’s sophomore LP will arrive on August 22.
The project will arrive on August 1 via Interscope Records.
The songwriter’s latest project will arrive via his own label on August 22.
Both songs were originally featured on the band’s 2025 LP The Human Fear.
Moor Mother and SPELLLING are also set to perform at the September 13 show at Under the K Bridge Park.
The duo’s Colorfield Records album will arrive on July 11.
The band’s drink sum wtr debut will arrive on October 3.
Physical editions of the 2015 project—featuring two previously unreleased bonus cuts—will arrive on July 18.
The track was originally featured on the songwriter’s latest LP, No Name.
The project will arrive on July 25 via Ruination Record Co.
The Starrr of the Queen of Life will arrive on August 1 via Sub Pop and Royal Mountain Records.
Come for the punk groove, stay for the Jojo Siwa reference.
