Miles Raymer

Jul 30, 2024 | floodmagazine.com | Miles Raymer

PavementCautionary Tales: Jukebox ClassiquesMATADORMy relationship with Pavement these days is like a friendship from way back with someone I went through a lot together with at a formative moment in our lives, but have been on a divergent path from ever since. Three decades on, I love them, and probably will forever in one way or another, but I don’t follow them on socials and I don’t usually come out when they’re in town.

Feb 27, 2024 | nytimes.com | Miles Raymer

Michael Salem built a retail business by selling to customers like male cross-dressers and transgender women at a time when serving both was more taboo. Michael Salem, 82, trying on a rhinestone bralette at Curve New York, a lingerie trade show, in February. Credit... Kate Warren for The New York Times On a Monday in early February, Michael Salem was contemplating some silicone breast enhancers at a booth inside the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Midtown Manhattan.

Dec 8, 2023 | floodmagazine.com | Miles Raymer

Twenty years after its release, it’s still hard to wrap your head around “Hey Ya!” Snappy, a little sad, and almost disturbingly hard to shake once it’s wedged in your brain, André 3000’s first hit single as a solo artist—even if it was credited to OutKast—reaches the level of pop nirvana where it’s hard to believe it was composed by a living, breathing human being, and not just manifested by the universe itself.

Sep 26, 2023 | tinyurl.com | Miles Raymer

The debut album and VR piece from the Chicago-native rapper/producer/creative paints a portrait of his hometown rendered in grainy digital tones, where spirits crowd the frame. VyleA Ü T O/M Ö T O RSELF-RELEASEDChicago is prairie-flat and neatly laid out, but there are still plenty of places for ghosts to hide—corners haunted by acts of violence, blocks haunted by pre-gentrification ways of life now disappearing, an entire city carrying a staggering death count.

Jun 8, 2023 | floodmagazine.com | Miles Raymer