Cover features with M.I.A, Wu-Tang Clan, Paul Dano, and Tenacious D with Rob Rogers, plus John Carpenter, Boygenius, Spiritualized, Chai, and more.
FLOOD Issue 09
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Gloin, “All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)”
On their second album, the Toronto band taps into the fury of their post-punk forebears with a polished set of psychological insights that feel angry in all the right ways.

Great Grandpa, “Patience, Moonbeam”
An experiment in more collaborative songwriting, the band’s highly ambitious first album in over five years truly shines when all of its layered ideas are given proper room to breathe.

Bryan Ferry & Amelia Barratt, “Loose Talk”
This ghostly collaborative album with spoken-word artist Barratt finds the Roxy Music leader digging his own crates for old demos and warped melodies that went unused until now.

This new head honcho of humor is diversifying the formats and faces featured in the revered magazine.

With great power comes great responsibility.

The Decemberists / 2014 / photo by Autumn De Wilde
(Looking wistful helps.)

The illustrator and comic book artist walks us through his vision of a world that’s both musical and anti-Seussical.

A conversation on Polaroids, trust, and the humanity of all people with the groundbreaking photographer.

On the concept album “A Short Story About a War,” the Canadian rapper has created a world—and a war—that’ll hit close to home, wherever you are.

Alfonso Cuarón’s follow-up to “Gravity” is Netflix’s first big play for Best Picture. Its star had never acted before.

The Japanese band is rocketing into the West with a full-blown stylistic vision firmly in place. And that vision doesn’t include any preconceived notions of what it means to be “cute.”

Tequila, art, and what it all means, man.

Allison Crutchfield, Kyle Gilbride, and Jeff Bolt were just getting started when Swearin’ first called it quits. But then they said fuck all that and made something new.

The actress best-known as a bubbly tour guide in heaven is learning a lot from playing non-human.

Twin Peaks’ Clay Frankel and Home-Sick’s Chris Bailoni decided to make a group casually, even though the music ended up sounding anything but.

On Lillie West’s debut for Hardly Art, her recent sobriety and a newfound gratitude for life stand resiliently among Chicago’s freaky music scene.

Unlike most supergroups, the debut EP from the songwriting team of Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus invites listeners to hear each artist as an individual.

Jason Pierce considered having the bedroom-recorded “And Nothing Hurt” be the last Spiritualized album—and even though it might not be, it still sounds like quite the finale.

Our biggest print edition yet features four cover stories across two collectible versions, as well as stories on John Carpenter, Spiritualized, Dawoud Bey, boygenius, Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, and much more.

Our FLOOD 9 cover story on the offbeat (and oft-beat) actor and first-time director.

Our FLOOD 9 cover story on Wu-Tang Clan, the rap group with a religious following.

Our FLOOD 9 cover conversation between ex–Pittsburgh Post-Gazette political cartoonist and an irreverent rock duo.

Our FLOOD 9 cover story on the pop star and fervent activist.

What many consider the scariest movie ever made started as a casual idea tossed out to a young filmmaker who understood the terror inherent within our own homes. That filmmaker also knew how to play the synthesizer.


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