Mike LeSuer

1 week ago | floodmagazine.com | Mike LeSuer

I, for one, have never been opposed to the prospect of a noise-rock LP summed up by its creators as a “nihilistic death march,” but the first half of 2025 has surely made a record like Chrome Dipped a particularly welcomed sound for a broader demographic of ears.

1 week ago | floodmagazine.com | Mike LeSuer

Canadian psych-folk artist Imaad Wasif has been a staple of the alt-rock scene for two decades now as a solo songwriter, the leader of post-hardcore icons lowercase, and a collaborator to everyone from Karen O to Lou Barlow. With such a vast and diverse catalog to his name, Wasif is now launching his own label Voidist Records to redistribute all of his old records, as well as to release all future music through.

1 week ago | floodmagazine.com | Mike LeSuer

Four years ago today, Indianapolis rappers Oreo Jones and Sirius Blvck dropped their debut album alongside producer/vocalist Sedcairn (f.k.a. Jookabox, for all the freak-folk lifers out there) as 81355. Since the release of This Time I’ll Be of Use, Blvck has remained prolific as a solo artist quickly establishing his own lane over less-ambiguously hip-hop instrumentals, while Jones released a record last year that felt more akin to the pop-rap tradition.

1 week ago | floodmagazine.com | Mike LeSuer

Formerly one half of Talk Normal, Register’s debut double-single is out now. While most of their peers were cosplaying Suicide and the New York Dolls in the aughts, NYC duo Talk Normal capped off the decade with a pair of records that not only channeled Sonic Youth’s experimental, no-wave-y noise-rock, but was even celebrated by the band, with Thurston Moore hopping on a split EP with the duo in 2011.

2 weeks ago | floodmagazine.com | Mike LeSuer

Over the course of a decade, Chicago’s Divino Niño have made a steady ascent from soft psychedelic rock music into out-there hypnagogia increasingly dependent on conventions borrowed from Latin house and reggaeton, culminating in 2022’s bedroom R&B opus Last Spa on Earth.