The self-proclaimed “photographer trapped in a rock band” reflects on her new memoir and photo book documenting her years playing bass in Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins.
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Melissa Auf der Maur Is Regaining Her Creative Flow
Words: Steve Appleford
Photo: Norman Jean Roy
Additional Photos: Melissa Auf der Maur
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Underworld’s Pre-Brookside at the Rose Bowl Playlist
Words: Randy Bookasta
Photo: Millie Caldon
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Backstage Camera Roll: Stones Throw 30 Festival
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Photos: Stones Throw Staff
Aimee Mann, Sarah Silverman, and Roy Choi Team Up for Evening Supporting War Child
Words: Will Schube
Photo: courtesy of Aimee Mann
MUNA Recruit Avalon Emerson, Romy, Arlo Parks, and Porches for Dancing on the Wall Deluxe Edition
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Dean Bradshaw
Cage the Elephant Announce Dying in Reverse LP, Share New Single “Make It Easy”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: courtesy of the band
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Club Kid: A Coming-of-Age and Coming-to-Grips Tale
Words: A.D. Amorosi
Photo: courtesy of A24
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BEL Envisions a Life More Ordinary on New Single “American Dream”
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: SJ Spreng
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Jess Kerber Previews the Title Track From Her Forthcoming LP in New Studio Session
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Will Orchard
Zelooperz Shares Another Black Noi$e Collaboration with “Masons Dispatch”
Words: Will Schube
Hannah Jadagu Shares “Curse” Amid Arena Tour with sombr
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Hannah Jadagu and Sam Wilbert
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Christine and the Queens Shares New Bilingual Single “Rendez vous avec toi”/“Rendez-vous in Your Arms”
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Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul Announce Mainland Madinina LP, Share “From Healer to Dealer”
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Watch Josh Rouse Perform Two Songs in Hendersonville, Tennessee for “Neighborhoods”
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Melissa Auf der Maur Is Regaining Her Creative Flow
The self-proclaimed “photographer trapped in a rock band” reflects on her new memoir and photo book documenting her years playing bass in Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins.
Words: Steve Appleford
Photo: Norman Jean Roy
Additional Photos: Melissa Auf der Maur
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June McDoom Wants to Get You Into Weirder Music
The NYC-via-South-Florida songwriter discusses her genre-hopping debut for Jagjaguwar, Follow the Light, and how it was born from a struggle to fit in.
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Ryley Paskal
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Blondshell Is Letting Her Hair Down
In our latest digital cover story, Sabrina Teitelbaum discusses how she’s developed a sense of artistic agency that’s allowed her to draw closer to her intended sound on her third album, Violins.
Words: Erica Russell
Photos: Ebru Yildiz
Photo Assistant: Pelin Kılıç
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13
The Tenth Anniversay Issue
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.
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Neighborhoods
Watch Josh Rouse Perform Two Songs in Hendersonville, Tennessee for “Neighborhoods”
Words: FLOOD Staff
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Naked Raygun Share “Vanilla Blue” Ahead of New Live LP Documenting Their 2006 Reunion
Words: Mischa Pearlman
Photo: Mike Vinikour
Pixies Bring Four Rare Tracks to Streaming, Including Steve Albini Version of “Dig for Fire”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Renaud Monfourny
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Live, in Photos: Nice as Fuck at Theatre of Living Arts
Words: FLOOD Staff
Photos: David Iskra
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Elke Breaks Down Her Homesick New LP Big Mike Track by Track
Words: FLOOD Staff
Photo: Maria Torres
Phoebe Bridgers Brings “Phoebeween” Pop-Up Shops to LA
Words: Will Schube
Photos: Courtsey @sourcebridgers
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Live, in Photos: Kelela at The Vic
Words: FLOOD Staff
Photos: MoneyShot4all
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Ex:Re Walks Us Through Each Song on Her Healing New Album Save As
Words: Will Schube
Photo: El Hardwick
Boys Noize Recruits Brutalismus 3000 for New Single “Nächstenliebe”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Ian Buosi, Tom Funk
Justice Announce Grand Theft Auto VI: Original Score, Share New Single with Gesaffelstein
Words: Will Schube
Pivot Gang Share “Location” Ahead of New LP Planned for 2027
Words: Will Schube
Photo: THEREALREAVEN
Deftones, The Strokes, Fontaines D.C., and Slayyyter to Headline Kilby Block Party 2027
Words: Will Schube
Photo: David Iskra
Everything But the Girl Announce Blue Reservoir LP, Share “Young and Dumb”
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Edward Bishop
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Boys Noize, 7LLVSION
Made bigger and brawnier by his recent collaboration with Nine Inch Nails, the German-Iraqi electronic producer’s first new solo album in five years proves the most maximal of his career.
Catherine Elicson, River of Fat
Quietly defiant and beautifully insular, the Empath vocalist’s solo debut is a capsule of self-discovery and experimentation outside the confines of any kind of relationship structure.
Bad Brains, Are You Ready
With these raw recordings from 1979, the DC band provides a glimpse into the birth of modern hardcore-punk—which would be far more exciting if we didn’t already have the incendiary Black Dots collection.
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