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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news Aug 10
Hosts, presenters, performers, and partner messaging have turned SAMA32's closing week into a broader statement about South African music, live-event scale, and the awards' return to Sun City on Saturday, August 15, 2026.
review Jul 31
The South African star uses her second album to make global scale feel like an extension of home rather than an exit from it.
feature Jul 30
A London stage, a 40-piece orchestra, and five unheard songs show how a concert film can deepen an album instead of merely advertising it.
spotlight Jul 28
Spotify built a two-week program around how young Nairobi listens. The revealing part is what happened when the playlist left the screen.
feature Jul 26
Five years of platform data shows enormous growth, but the most important signal is not export success. It is what Nigerian listeners choose at home.
feature Jul 24
The global recorded-music business grew again in 2025. Sub-Saharan Africa grew much faster, yet the size and distribution of its recorded revenue tells a more complicated story.
feature Dec 13
Previewed in a Pepsi campaign, performed on tour and released first as a bonus video, “Grown Woman” spent a decade hiding in plain sight.
review Oct 12
The group’s first holiday album is a polished showcase for five familiar voices, although its faithful standards rarely match the personality of its three new songs.
feature Jul 29
Beyoncé’s credits reveal a collaborative method built on demos, vocal composition, samples and radical revision—not the simple fraud-or-genius story argued online.
news Jun 20
The earliest firmly dated stage sighting of the Ganga-led work came at Summer Smash in Chicago, before Uzi displayed it again in Washington the following day.
news Apr 11
The 2022 North American itinerary opens July 28 in Raleigh and reaches Hollywood, Florida, on October 19, with the two guests assigned to different portions of the route.
news Mar 10
The set photograph promised an unlikely meeting. Ricardo Gomes’s finished video turns Madonna’s 1998 single, Sickick’s viral production and Fireboy DML’s new verse into a compact fire-and-ice performance.
feature Dec 24
From Clarence Peters’ run of major releases to Daps’ Headies victory and Prodigeezy’s politically charged work with Falz, directors made the year’s Nigerian hits visible as well as audible.
spotlight Dec 14
A leaked Sia demo was never a *This Is Acting* track. Its composition found an authorized home years later in Natalie Portman’s fictional pop world.
feature Dec 14
The song circulated without authorization in 2016, attracted an unproven Lady Gaga theory, then emerged legitimately—sung by Raffey Cassidy—on the Vox Lux soundtrack.
feature Jun 9
Before “Witness” titled a No. 1 album, a Twitter hack produced an uncertain demo. Its journey clarifies what was leaked—and what Perry officially released.
spotlight Dec 5
The 18-year-old Atlanta singer-producer’s collaboration with Amber Mark turns loss, soft voices and restless electronics into one concise emotional argument.
feature Nov 4
Adele’s most rhythmic single from 25 is not about a romance already forgotten—it captures the anxious wait to learn whether love will last.
feature Oct 9
Minaj’s own comments transformed an anonymous old leak into a rare documented writing demo, though its producer, session date, and future remain unresolved.
feature Oct 7
The band’s ambitious fourth album, Ryan Tedder’s burnout and a tropical-pop standalone single reveal a career forced to rethink the album cycle.