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.
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spotlight Jun 5
With Anthony Hamilton and a Commodores sample, Big K.R.I.T. turned a Southern domestic image into the emotional hinge of his major-label debut.
feature May 29
Promoted as a forthcoming international single, “Dance Tonight” leaked without a verified commercial release—and was later confused with a different official collaboration.
spotlight May 23
The 2012 collaboration was neither a Craig David album single nor a stray preview: it was a licensed dance release with several regional dates and mixes.
spotlight May 22
The brassy opener to Listen Up! gave Haley Reinhart a post-Idol identity, but years of contradictory digital credits have obscured who made it.
spotlight May 18
Before “Habibi” carried his voice onto global charts, Faydee was testing an independent model built from R&B, internet discovery and an instinct for musical translation.
feature May 17
Her death on May 17, 2012 ended a singular career, but the familiar “Queen of Disco” title still understates her authorship, range and technological influence.
spotlight May 6
A stray reference vocal became confused with Estelle’s finished song. The surviving credits and chronology reveal what the recording actually was.
spotlight May 4
Kevin McCall entered public view as a singer, rapper, songwriter and producer at once. The complicated credits tell a fuller story than a one-hit résumé.
spotlight Apr 23
The 2012 single turned a Pittsburgh mixtape star’s work ethic into arena-scale pop—and defined the ambitions and compromises of the O.N.I.F.C. era.
spotlight Apr 18
At Le Poisson Rouge, Irmin Schmidt and Jono Podmore presented Can’s newly organized archive as an extension of the band’s composing and editing process—not a reunion or an exercise in nostalgia.
news Mar 28
The veteran soul singer and the Expressions turn temptation, testimony and a tightly controlled groove into an unresolved piece of live drama.
spotlight Feb 28
On the Robert Glasper Experiment’s first full-length album, a working band and its guests turn jazz, R&B, hip-hop and rock into parts of the same live conversation.
spotlight Dec 20
Thomas McAlister and Sam Weston built an early Sydney electronic standout from sampled voices, suspended melody and a beat that advances without rushing.
feature Dec 11
The first group to win Britain’s X Factor turned a televised experiment into a decade-long study in vocal chemistry, resilience and control.
spotlight Nov 28
The handmade intimacy of Grimes’ “Vanessa” video and the sharper pulse of her new song “Oblivion” capture Claire Boucher at a pivotal point in 2011.
feature Nov 25
A leaked songwriter vocal has often been mistaken for a lost solo track, but the documented song belongs to a 2011 Olly Murs album and three credited writers.
spotlight Nov 15
The surviving record of a November 2011 MTV Hive performance reveals why “Vessel” was the ideal introduction to Zola Jesus’s newly released album, *Conatus*.
spotlight Nov 11
By November 2011, the album track had acquired a typographic lyric video, an acoustic session and a place in The Kooks’ live set—while its familiar narrative promo still lay ahead.
spotlight Sep 19
Eight days before Extra Classic’s analog-recorded debut was due, its final track revealed how far the San Francisco band could travel beyond a strictly reggae framework.
spotlight Sep 19
The intimate 2011 Yours Truly and Gorilla vs. Bear session showed how the strange architecture of Black Up could survive outside the studio without surrendering its mystery.