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6 days ago | 
floodmagazine.com | Mike LeSuer |Shervin Lainez
The songwriter (and doula) released her latest LP, The Most Familiar Star, last month. Domino Kirke belongs to a family of multihyphenates, with sisters Lola and Jemima juggling acting, painting, filmmaking, and songwriting duties. Yet beyond being a musician herself, Domino has devoted over 15 years to work outside of the arts as a doula, in addition to becoming an advocate for various causes surrounding postpartum motherhood and sex and childbirth education.
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6 days ago | 
floodmagazine.com | Mike LeSuer |Janette Beckman
Neo-soul songwriter José James has remained prolific over the past 17 years, though none of the solo or collaborative records he’s released in that time quite stack up to the ambition of his latest project.
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1 week ago | 
floodmagazine.com | Mike LeSuer
Ahead of the release of their new EP too scared to explain this week, the California duo shares how everyone from Kendrick Lamar to Deftones get them hyped before a set. With a self-titled album, a slew of EPs, and a viral “Creep” cover under their belt, California grunge-pop duo Rauehave half a decade of experience when it comes to bringing their punky material to increasingly high-cap venues.
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1 week ago | 
floodmagazine.com | Mike LeSuer
It’s the Philly band’s first single of the year, following 2023’s Labyrinthitis LP. Two years removed from their latest album, Philadelphia’s Fullscreen have released a handful of singles lately signifying an evolution from Labyrinthitis’s rock-based song structures.
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1 week ago | 
floodmagazine.com | Mike LeSuer
Executive-produced by Flea, the student ensembles recorded covers of “The Wait,” “Show Me,” and “Talk of the Town” to benefit the organization’s music education programs.
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1 week ago | 
floodmagazine.com | Mike LeSuer
Alien Boy’s Sonia Weber isn’t shy about Smashing Pumpkins’ influence on her band. You can hear it in the project’s balance of angst-ridden grunge and irresistible pop melodies, sure, but in discussing the period of time during which the band’s third album You Wanna Fade? came together, Billy Corgan comes up numerous times, as Weber found herself listening to eight-hour podcast episodes on the band’s history, or sitting up with bandmate A.P. Fiedler all night listening through their discography.
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1 week ago | 
floodmagazine.com | Mike LeSuer
Evolving beyond an indietronica solo project for founder Crystal Choi, New Zealand’s Phoebe Rings is gearing up to release their full-band debut album Aseurai next month, with the project’s 10 tracks expressing how far beyond their baseline dream-pop influence they’re willing to push things on their introductory statement.
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1 week ago | 
floodmagazine.com | Mike LeSuer
After decades of giving our parents a hard time for seeming stuck in the ’60s cultural moment while their TV diets have simultaneously deteriorated into a smorgasbord of police procedurals, Millennials everywhere are likely having a hard time fessing up to watching Apple TV’s recently launched crime-drama/post-punk-revival period piece City on Fire.
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1 week ago | 
floodmagazine.com | Mike LeSuer
Back in 2019, after nearly a decade of fronting Remember Sports, Carmen Perry returned to that band’s roots with a reissue of their 2014 album Sunchokes that featured a bonus disc of demos attributed to Addie Pray, Perry’s pre-Sports solo moniker. That project had previously gone dormant in 2015 after the release of her Screentime LP, but in a sense was revived when Perry recently released her debut single as a solo artist under her given name.
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1 week ago | 
floodmagazine.com | Mike LeSuer
It was just over two years ago that Sabrina Teitelbaum made good on the promise of her slew of early indie-pop singles as Blondshell with a self-titled debut that seemed to pack the songwriter’s lifetime into a 33-minute capsule of soaring alt-rock.
