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.
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.
Will Schube
The song is featured in the forthcoming film Heart of Stone, which is out on August 11.
The band has also announced a Queens Colosseum pre-show event in Toronto on August 4.
The duo’s album is finally seeing the light of day with an August 25 release via Lex Records.
The Chicago post-hardcore icons’ run of dates kicks off August 9 in Indianapolis with Upper Wilds.
The project will arrive on October 20 via Ninja Tune/Counter Records.
billy woods and ELUCID’s new album We Buy Diabetic Test Strips is out on September 29 via Fat Possum Records.
The limited-edition release arrives ahead of Thundercat’s In Yo Girl’s City tour.
The band’s new album The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons is out on August 11.
The tribute album A Song For Leon is out September 8 via Primary Wave Music.
Produced by Cate Le Bon, the LP marks their first work with an outside collaborator since 2007’s Sky Blue Sky.
The LA-based producer’s new album Gravity will arrive on September 8 via Friends of Friends.
Inspired in part by heartbreak and a move from Ontario to LA, the alt-R&B artist’s fourth album is out now via Hyperdub.
The book will be released on Questlove’s new Macmillan imprint, AUWA Books.
Sophie Allison is playing at Forest Hills Stadium in New York tonight with Maggie Rogers.
The NYC-based songwriter’s fourth album uses little moments of heartbreak for propulsion, with this momentum giving the album its sturdy bones.
The band’s follow-up to last year’s Time Skiffs will arrive on September 29 via Domino Records.
The band’s new album Mommy will arrive on August 25.
“The Rabbi” and “The Swan” arrive less than a week after the band’s new LP.
The album, which features Junglepussy, Soul Glo vocalist Pierce Jordan, Moor Mother, and more, is out September 29.
The band has announced release events for the singles in NYC and LA featuring exclusive merch pop-ups at both.
