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1 week ago | 
floodmagazine.com | Kevin Crandall
On January 13th, 2027, the State of Ohio intends to execute Keith LaMar. Today—a few days out from his 51st birthday—he’s celebrating the release of his second album, Freedom First: Live From Death Row.
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1 week ago | 
floodmagazine.com | Kevin Crandall
Aminé13 Months of Sunshine10KAminé’s music has always been primed for sunny days. The Portland-reared rapper stormed onto the scene in 2017 with his debut album Good for You, a bouncy pop-rap project best enjoyed while sitting poolside. 2020’s Limbo embraced the cooler side of the season, thriving in the shade with tracks like “Roots” and “Easy,” whose R&B undertones gave the album the feeling of a balmy breeze.
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1 month ago | 
floodmagazine.com | Kevin Crandall
SUMAC & Moor MotherThe FilmTHRILL JOCKEYOne remix simply wasn’t enough for SUMAC and Moor Mother. On the heels of the latter’s reinterpretation of the former’s “World of Light” in late 2024, the post-metal supergroup and poet/musician have reconvened for a full-length collaboration. The two acts share a penchant for avant-garde composition, often exploring abrasive textures and deconstructing rhythms within their respective works.
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1 month 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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2 months 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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2 months 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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2 months 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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Feb 28, 2025 | 
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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Feb 20, 2025 | 
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...
