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2 weeks ago | 
floodmagazine.com | Kevin Crandall
The Zambian-Canadian noise-rapper returns from a brief hiatus with an existentialist exploration of death, violence, and, ultimately, love, a textural letter to the downtrodden and the hopeless. BackxwashOnly Dust RemainsUGLY HAGSince the turn of the decade, Backxwash has been a tour de force in the underground hip-hop scene.
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1 month ago | 
floodmagazine.com | Kevin Crandall
Kwajo has been bubbling in the DMV underground since his Saba co-signed breakout single “Inside Out” in 2022, driving the release of his debut album Spleck the following year. A sunshine pop-rap record, Spleck fashioned its sound around the rapper’s hakuna matata–esque titular phrase, earning him an opening slot on 24kGoldn’s The Growing Pains Tour.
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1 month ago | 
floodmagazine.com | Kevin Crandall
Graham Jonson has been hard at work expanding his repertoire beyond the “chill beats to study/relax to” pigeonhole he thrived in as a teenager making lo-fi tapes. Based in Portland, Oregon, the artist—who performs under the name quickly, quickly—debuted his songwriting chops on 2021’s The Long and Short of It, demonstrating his psychedelic blend of soul and synth-forward bedroom pop.
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1 month ago | 
floodmagazine.com | Kevin Crandall
An intoxicating blend of Y2K aesthetics and bubblegum pop, Black’s second album is a celebration of her musical evolution from internet laughing stock to hyperpop powerhouse. Rebecca BlackSalvationSELF-RELEASEDABOVE THE CURRENTRebecca Black’s ascent into the pop-culture zeitgeist is not one of envy.
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1 month ago | 
jdsupra.com | Kevin Crandall |Gregory J. Skidmore
The FTC’s new Hart-Scott-Rodino rule, which we described in a previous publication, took effect earlier this month. Below are five key takeaways for corporate counsel:1. The new rule does not change who must file HSR or when filings are required. The new rule changes the information and documents that must be submitted with the HSR filing, but it does not change when a filing must be submitted.
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2 months ago | 
floodmagazine.com | Kevin Crandall |Tonje Thilesen
Taking a break from live set practice for his upcoming world tour, Will Wiesenfeld—better known as the musician Baths—talks me through the closer to his upcoming album Gut. “Having to tell yourself that the most beautiful thing in the world is something I can never have…it’s really painful.” The track, “Sound of a Blooming Flower,” takes inspiration from a Vespertine-era Björk interview, where the Icelandic legend laments being unable to record the sound of a flower actively in bloom.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
floodmagazine.com | Kevin Crandall
BACKSTORY: Formerly a jazz student at The New School in New York, the aspiring rock artist dropped out and returned home to pursue music full time, signing with Dirty Hit and amassing festival and touring experience—including opening slots for The 1975 and Still Woozy FROM: Los Angeles, born and raised YOU MIGHT KNOW HER FROM: Pigeons & Planes’ inaugural See You Next Year class of 2022, where she contributed the raucous “Mean Girl” to the Mike Dean–assisted compilation album NOW: Having just...
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
floodmagazine.com | Kevin Crandall
On his latest EP, the Detroit musician leans into his hip-hop roots while exploring what it means to love and resist over four quick-hit tracks enveloped by marijuana smoke.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
floodmagazine.com | Kevin Crandall
Kate PiersonRadios & RainbowsSONGVESTKate Pierson has long been a giant in the American music chronology, rocking her iconic beehive as a member of ’80s new-wave rockers The B-52’s for almost a half-century. Despite her long-time presence in the industry, however, she’d never released any solo projects prior to this past decade.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
floodmagazine.com | Kevin Crandall
The 11 rock-out earworms chronicling depression and anxiety on the Tacoma-based group’s second LP are well worth the headache. EnumclawHome in Another LifeRUN FOR COVERABOVE THE CURRENTThere’s an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants where the quadrilateral title character has a song hopelessly stuck in his head, and the only way he can get it out is by playing his speakers so loud that the literal earworm squatting in his canal is forced to move out.
