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.
Gorillaz, The Mountain
Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s guest-packed ninth album is a different kind of Gorillaz record—frequently interior, occasionally existential, surprisingly heartfelt.
GENA, The Pleasure Is Yours
Karriem Riggins and Liv.e’s collaborative debut beautifully plays to both of their strengths, resulting in a colorful and delightfully laid-back collection of neo-soul and jazz-rap.
Iron & Wine, Hen’s Teeth
A heavier fraternal twin to 2024’s Light Verse, Sam Beam’s unlikely eighth album hums through the speakers like a quiet, sudden revelation.
Will Schube
The band is going on tour with Broken Social Scene and Stars later this year.
Other artists who have penned protest songs over the past week include Billy Bragg and NOFX.
The band’s first album in nearly a decade, Remember the Humans, will arrive on May 8 via Arts & Crafts.
The duo of Stuart McLamb and Charles Crossingham released their first LP in 2024.
The collection from Jim James and co. includes covers and stripped-down originals.
Distracted is out April 3 via Brainfeeder.
The digital edition of the release is out now, with a physical version arriving just in time for Valentine’s Day.
The Cure, Nick Cave, CMAT, Oklou, and more have already been confirmed for the August event in Oslo.
The song was first performed live at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
The singer’s last LP arrived back in 2023.
“Starmer is a scumbag, don’t accept it,” the trio said about the subject of the new single.
The track served as the lead single from the band’s latest LP, Dance Called Memory.
Residents of the autonomous region can now receive subscriptions to the songwriter’s archive free of charge.
Nate Mendelsohn’s new LP Cleanliness 2: Gorgeous Technologies will arrive on February 27.
“I feel an obligation to withdraw this Symphony premiere from the Kennedy Center under its current leadership,” the composer said.
The punks will also be headlining John Waters’ Mosswood Meltdown in July.
The LA-via-Rhode-Island songwriter details the journey leading up to his debut album For the First Time, Again, arriving January 30 via Rough Trade.
The album from the rapper’s new crew will arrive on March 6 via Loma Vista.
The release also features new music from Cameron Winter, Olivia Rodrigo, The Last Dinner Party, Damon Albarn, and more.
The lounge-jazz collaboration is the latest single from the “Bjorn” of Peter Bjorn and John.
