In our new digital cover feature, Julian Casablancas talks the joys of balancing fronting The Strokes with his long-running experimental troupe The Voidz, who just released their third album Like All Before You |
✍️ by
@SteveAppleford
📷 by
@ebruyildiz
“It’s cool that when I play shows, young queer women who love Robin can come and connect to my music, too. There’s a lot of cohesion there.”
@mayahawke
talks balancing life as a working musician with her role in
@Stranger_Things
and beyond:
On her sophomore LP,
@mayahawke
has no fear in exposing her truest feelings and thoughts, often from the distance afforded by singing from the perspective of another person |
“She’s always been clever and funny and dark. But I feel like she presses into all of those traits on this record, even to the point where I was like, ‘I would never say that.’ But Phoebe would.”
@lucydacus
on
@phoebe_bridgers
’ “Punisher”
“We never make fun of the victims, but we do poke fun at the monsters or incels or moronic serial killers that are just pathetic loser slugs.”
We caught up w the Last Podcast on the Left guys (
@LPontheleft
@BenKissel
@HenryLovesYou
)
✍ by
@MrJamesCharisma
In this FLOOD 12 cover story we talk to
@phoebe_bridgers
about her record label
@SaddestFactory
, an ever-growing platform promoting her musical community in LA and beyond, with input from the label’s signees:
✍️ by
@anticlimaxwell
📷 by Michael Muller
Bedroom introvert musicians dodie (
@doddleoddle
) + Jacob Collier (
@jacobcollier
) talk their recent collab and YouTube, a.k.a. the social media platform on which they mutually struck gold:
"He would always come into the studio curious about how I worked and what I did. ‘How do you do that? Why do you do that?’ ... He must have been around 9 or 10 then, and I definitely felt that he would be someone."
—Stevie Wonder on Michael Jackson
Landing on an aesthetic somewhere between late-’90s hacker and early-’00s boy band, the fashion choices in the new
@wallowsmusic
video are nearly as notable as the song itself
“I want to be in a band that can pivot, grow, change... That’s what Queens is: this group of people that’s agreeing, ‘Yeah, we can fucking do whatever we want as long as we believe it.’”
Catching up with Josh Homme ahead of the new
@qotsa
LP
In our latest digital cover story, Alex Turner shares how
@ArcticMonkeys
’s trajectory over the past 2 decades has led them to their 7th LP “The Car,” the group’s most collaborative and unrestrained effort yet:
✍️ by
@matt_mitchell48
📷 by Chapman Baehler
In our latest digital cover,
@wallowsmusic
discuss their new album “Tell Me That It’s Over” and the indie rock revival, and share an exclusive live performance of “Missing Out”
✍ by
@mikewassmusic
📷 by Katherine Levin Sheehan
We kicked off Coachella weekend early with DJ sets by
@bludetiger
, Jahi Sundance, and DJ Chocolatebarbangs last night at FLOOD’s inaugural Desert Disco Party at The Alibi in Palm Springs
“For the music video for ‘I Disagree,’ I got to set record label executives on fire and gas them, which is something I’d always wanted to do.”
Poppy (
@poppy
) talks about her new album; ✍ by
@lanikaps
Today marks 300 eps of "Supernatural"
@cw_spn
, a little-watched, hard-loved TV show about grown brothers fighting demons and sleeping in sad motels. ✍ by
@tessmcgeer
In celebration of what would have been River Phoenix’s 50th b-day, hear previously unheard music by his band Aleka’s Attic with new parts by
@flea333
, plus read what Michael Stipe, Flea and
@RainJPhoenix
had to say about River’s legacy
“It’s a good book for children to read now, growing up during the Trump administration. The rejection of conformity, the emphasis on compassion.”
—
@sarahkendzior
On "A Wrinkle in Time":
“[Kanye West and Travis Scott] pretty much loved prog rock straight away. This stuff really hit the mark. Kanye started running around the room in circles.”
—
@therealmikedean
"Do not lose time on daily trivialities. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead."
HBD
@donhertzfeldt
.
FLOOD's Passion Issue 3: Featuring Carly Rae Jepsen on traveling, Jónsi of Sigur Rós on making perfume, Jamila Woods on poetry, and Helado Negro on visual art.
Get it here:
“I’ve met plenty of people I really relate to who like to spend a lot of time alone, and they, too, have felt very pressured that they’re doing it wrong—that they’re doing life wrong.”
—
@AndrewWK
|
"The fire marshal said there were too many names on the list. So we had to uninvite people. We lost some Facebook friends over it for sure."
—
@wallowsmusic
on the perils of making a music video. New album out 3/22 on
@AtlanticRecords
“I think
@LINGUA_IGNOTA_
was cathartic for other people to hear. But for myself, it was always just kind of the work of a very unhealed person trying to make sense of everything.”
— Rev. Kristin Michael Hayter
In our Q&A, the three artists discuss the making of “Full Court Press,”
@girltalk
’s production process,
@BIGKRIT
’s amazement with his career progression, and
@smokedza
’s impressive rhyme creation tactics
✍ by
@SorenBaker
“Throughout this quarantine everybody is realizing what’s important. Nobody cares what kind of car you drive. You can’t even get in your car to go see your family.” —
@HERMusicx
📷 by
@Danny_Clinch
“What Lenny and Hettie show based on what Sally has written is a sexual relationship that doesn’t seem glamorized. It’s a sexual relationship that we recognize rather than one we aspire to.”
—
@mescal_paul
talks
@normalpeople
"Because
@kateberlant
and I are a male/female duo, it’s such an easy testing ground for misogyny. I do not get a tenth of what she gets online. We’ll tweet literally the same video, and the responses to Kate are so ugly."
—
@bejohnce
|
"I've gone through three changes: I thought I was a Christian, then I was the devil, then the third one, where I know who I am, you know—I feel like I'm an alien."
RIP Roky Erickson
On his episode of
@FLOODFM
’s “Hacked,” Dallon Weekes of
@iDKHOW
spins everything from Durand Jones & the Indications to Whitmer Thomas to Phantom Planet
We're giving away tickets for the insane This Ain't No Picnic Festival with LCD Soundsytem, The Strokes, Phoebe Bridgers, Wet Leg, Beach House, Sparks, Le Tigre, Kaytranada + more. All you have to do to enter is RT this tweet and follow FLOOD on Twitter + IG for a chance to win!
Curated and compiled by
@yokoono
and
@seanonolennon
, everything sounds more sumptuous, stark, yet simpler than ever before in
@johnlennon
’s solo recording past
From ’00s indie-rock nostalgia to classic pop-country balladeering (this includes Madonna),
@underscoresplus
shares a dozen tracks that inspired her new LP due out tomorrow via
@MomAndPopMusic