This special issue is themed around sustainability and protecting the natural world, including cover features with Jeff Bridges, Animal Collective, Alex Honnold and Swoon, plus exclusive interviews with Local Natives, Weyes Blood, Gary Clark Jr., Big Thief, and more.
The Sustainability Issue
This special issue is themed around sustainability and protecting the natural world, including cover features with Jeff Bridges, Animal Collective, Alex Honnold and Swoon, plus exclusive interviews with Local Natives, Weyes Blood, Gary Clark Jr., Big Thief, and more.
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Madonna, “Veronica Electronica”
A companion to her 1998 downtempo LP Ray of Light, this collection is a series of fresh, future-forward edits, remixes, and demo tracks meant to expand the vision of the original album.
The Dirty Nil, “The Lash”
Harrowing and fun in equal measure, the Ontario groups’ fifth record is a deliberate return to their raw punk ’n’ roll roots with a newfound sense of vulnerability lying beneath all the noise.
Nick Drake, “The Making of Five Leaves Left”
Meant to tell a deeper story behind the songwriter’s 1969 debut, each demo, outtake, and alternate version on this 4-LP set radiates the piecemeal feel of a novice grasping his way through a new endeavor.
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Film + TV
Jennifer Kent Talks Humanity and Timeless Violence in “The Nightingale”
The “Babadook” writer/director is ready to terrify you all over again with her new film.
Breaking
Cola Boyy Is Breaking the Rules of Dance Music
The artist born Matthew Urango is a multi-instrumentalist whose punk-rock youth led to his making spaced-out, modern disco.
Breaking
Kari Faux Addresses the Shit That Makes Her Uncomfortable
The LA rapper discusses the bad friends and desire for solitude that inspired her recent EP “Cry 4 Help.”
She Keeps Bees’ Jessica Larrabee Sings for Trees
The husband-and-wife folk-rock duo detail the band’s new album, “Kinship,” and music’s role in the age of climate activism.
Local Natives on Turning Chaos Into Something Beautiful
Between recording + touring their recent album, the SoCal rockers search for long-term solutions to managing waste.
Charly Bliss Has Unfuckwithable Chemistry
Eva Hendricks and her band discuss the honesty and maturity that went into writing “Young Enough.”
Film + TV
William Jackson Harper Is Facing His Fears
The star of NBC’s “The Good Place” and A24’s “Midsommar” is a nervous kinda guy.
photo by Aaron Flunn, Bosnia
Art & Culture
Jon Rose: Guerrilla Humanitarian
The former pro surfer talks Waves 4 Water, the humanitarian aid organization he founded after an interrupted surfing trip to Indonesia.
Gary Clark Jr.: Home of the Brave
The Texas guitar hero faces harsh realities about race in America on his new album.
Art & Culture
Philippe Cousteau Jr. and Michael Muller Are Making Waves
The grandson of Jacques Cousteau and the world’s foremost shark photographer chat.
For Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker, It’s All About the Little Things
The band’s frontwoman on their 4AD debut, “U.F.O.F.,” and how she combats the music industry’s waste by living in her truck.
Film + TV
A Regeneration of the Soul: Life on the Farm
In big-hearted documentary “The Biggest Little Farm,” a married couple leave Los Angeles behind to cultivate greener pastures.
Art & CultureDigital Cover
Swoon: Steadfast and Self-Sustaining
The Brooklyn-based artist details the intersection of personal and global sustainability in her work.
Art & CultureDigital CoverFilm + TV
Alex Honnold: The Rock Whisperer
He’s the only person to have scaled Yosemite monster-wall El Capitan without ropes, a feat detailed in the Oscar-winning doc “Free Solo.”
Digital Cover
Animal Collective’s Aural Morphology
Charting the Baltimore group’s long, strange journey.
Art & CultureFilm + TV
Announcing FLOOD 10, featuring Jeff Bridges, Animal Collective, Alex Honnold, and Swoon
Themed around sustainability + the natural world, this print issue features four cover stories plus Weyes Blood, Big Thief, Gary Clark Jr., Philippe Cousteau Jr., and more.
Digital CoverFilm + TV
Jeff Bridges: Rediscovering Fire with The Dude
In their thoughtful climate change documentary, Jeff Bridges + director Susan Kucera ask: If our evolutionary traits are killing us, how do we change?
Weyes Blood Isn’t Afraid of Climate Change
The Los Angeles–based musician’s fourth album confronts humanity’s bleak future head-on.
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