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 album arrives on October 6 via Keeled Scales.
The track will be released as a 12” with an accompanying b-side entitled “The Challenge (Live Edit)” on August 25.
Be Good The Crazy Boys will arrive on November 10 via Western Vinyl.
The 30th anniversary edition of Phair’s breakout 1993 LP will arrive on October 20 via Matador.
Local Natives
Time Will Wait for No One will arrive July 7 courtesy of Loma Vista Recordings.
Their collaborative album To Operate This System will arrive July 26 courtesy of POW Recordings.
The track was produced by Jake Luppen of Hippo Campus and Caleb Wright.
The release will arrive July 28 courtesy of Warp Records.
Trevor Powers shares a collection of songs reflecting the themes of his new LP Heaven Is a Junkyard, as well as his immediate surroundings in his hometown of Boise, Idaho.
The Summer Odyssey run will kick off August 1 in Seattle.
The band’s North American tour will kick off September 23 in Toronto following the record’s September 1 release via Dead Oceans.
The event is scheduled for November 18 in Huntington Beach, CA.
The new LP will arrive September 15 courtesy of the band’s own Woodsist Records.
The fest is planned for October 20 and 21 in Miami.
The new album from the folk-rock titans is out now via ATO Records.
The post-punk group’s singer/drummer discusses the influence of albums by Yves Tumor, Oneohtrix Point Never, and more in the wake of the band’s own new LP O Monolith.
Earl Sweatshirt
The previously unreleased track was produced by Evilgiane.
Lætitia Tamko’s Rostam co-produced third record will arrive September 15 courtesy of Nonesuch Records.
CHAI is out September 22 courtesy of Sub Pop/Sony Music.
The track is featured on Sub Pop’s Singles Club. Vol. 8.
