Editorial
News, conversations, local scenes, new voices, and releases worth spending time with.
news Aug 12
Verified reporting on Pabllo Vittar’s documented onstage appearance during Rosalía’s second Rio LUX Tour performance, with the evidence boundary kept explicit.
news Aug 11
Limp Bizkit, Simple Plan and Spiritbox top a December run that links anniversary sets, familiar headliners and a deep local-international undercard.
news Aug 10
The rare co-ed quartet’s first full album marks the closing stretch of its DSP era, but the members say the group is not breaking up—leaving a global fandom to distinguish a contract ending from a creative ending.
The latest
feature Sep 18
A documented history of the Diane Warren and Lady Gaga ballad, its stark campus-assault video, and the campaign that carried it from The Hunting Ground to the Oscars.
feature Sep 17
The lead single from Delirium was not a leak or an Ed Sheeran confession, but a carefully timed Max Martin collaboration built for Goulding’s pop-scale reinvention.
feature Sep 17
Naughty Boy’s 2015 single was never a two-artist recording: Beyoncé’s central role, the song’s acoustic origins and its underwater film are essential history.
feature Aug 31
Born on 1989, transformed into a cinematic single and later reclaimed as Taylor’s Version, “Wildest Dreams” has lived several distinct public lives.
feature Aug 30
A misspelled title and an unauthorized early stream obscured the fact that Miley Cyrus officially released the same intimate slow jam days later.
feature Aug 28
First released as a solo promotional track, “Hair” found its definitive hit form months later through a Sean Paul remix and a brilliantly ordinary sleepover video.
spotlight Aug 28
Released before its cinematic video, Justin Bieber’s tropical-house pivot became his first US and UK number one—and the opening move of the Purpose era.
feature Aug 21
Released as an official single in 2015, “Backyard Party” sold uncomplicated celebration while troubling realities already shadowed its host.
feature Aug 21
Jess Glynne and Emeli Sandé’s unusual duet was an intimate album cut born from shared memories—not the fully launched single its creators once imagined.
feature Aug 21
A European summer hit became a bilingual transatlantic duet—but conflicting dates and multiple videos have long clouded the Jennifer Lopez version’s history.
feature Aug 21
A 2015 report conflated “Set Me Free” with “Be Right There.” Reconstructing that week reveals two separate releases and one consequential title error.
feature Aug 14
Pia Mia answered a 2015 leak by sharing her Kid Ink collaboration, but the catchy Nic Nac production never received the commercial rollout reports promised.
feature Aug 14
Ne-Yo’s Disney cover was not a leak or stray soundtrack cut, but the carefully staged first taste of 2015’s star-packed We Love Disney compilation.
feature Aug 14
The club-minded highlight from I Am was an official promotional release—not a leak—and a revealing pivot in Lewis’s post-Syco career.
news Aug 12
The new sleeve puts Fifth Harmony—not Dracula—at the center of a soundtrack single moving from movie trailer to Syco/Epic release.
feature Aug 10
Fan-maintained catalogs describe the August 2015 files as mixed-era recordings and versions; official records do not identify any as a Honeymoon outtake.
feature Aug 10
A stray 2015 leak opened a window onto Charli XCX’s formative writing years—but its date, credits and intended destination remain frustratingly uncertain.
feature Aug 8
Mariah Carey, Justin Bieber, French Montana and T.I. recorded a major remix in 2015—but a studio leak outran any official release plan.
spotlight Aug 3
From cassette-built Philadelphia recordings to Otherness and beyond, Adam Bainbridge turned exacting production into a practice of listening, credit and shared authorship.
spotlight Aug 3
Alicia Bognanno wrote, produced, engineered and mixed Bully’s debut, giving its self-scrutiny a four-piece attack that sounds ragged because every edge has been chosen.