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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feature Oct 6
Filmed at San Francisco’s The Sub, the Guelph duo’s In My Room performance exchanges the enveloping sound of Loveless for piano, a slower pulse, and an exposed lead vocal.
spotlight Sep 27
With Larry Gold’s string arrangement and Philippe Zdar’s spacious mix, the seventh track on Business Casual shows how Chromeo could expand their electro-funk formula without abandoning it.
spotlight Sep 27
A dark Chicago session for Yours Truly captured Tom Krell translating a familiar R&B song into the intimate, weathered language of How to Dress Well.
spotlight Jul 29
The Swedish sisters’ early single turns a Gram Parsons phrase, three rejected testimonies and tightly layered voices into a folk song about who is allowed to be heard.
spotlight Jun 30
Dawes’ 2010 collaboration with the Morning Benders placed the searching centerpiece of North Hills in a communal setting that suited the song’s unresolved questions and sing-along release.
spotlight Jun 17
On 17 June 2010, the Dublin singer-songwriter’s self-recorded Early in the Morning remained a word-of-mouth discovery—but its falsetto, layered arrangements and patient crescendos already marked it as an unusually assured debut.
spotlight Jun 14
The lead single from *InnerSpeaker* turns the pleasure of being alone into a restless collision of hooks, phased guitars and Jay Watson’s exuberant drums.
spotlight Jun 8
Before Cerulean arrived, Will Wiesenfeld’s “Plea” showed how handmade electronics, forceful rhythm and plainly expressed queer longing could occupy the same intimate space.
spotlight Apr 29
Yours Truly’s Barcelona session reveals how the Basque quartet joins programmed rhythm, live-band dynamics and vulnerable pop songwriting on a standout from Subiza.
spotlight Apr 29
The Basque quartet’s 2010 Yours Truly session captured the moment its rock-band framework became a collective system for making radiant electronic pop.
spotlight Apr 3
Elizabeth Powell strips a 2006 Land of Talk favorite back to its unsettled core in an intimate live session recorded as the band returned to the road.
review Feb 12
Ahead of its March 2010 release, the Minneapolis chamber-folk sextet’s six-song EP reveals how piano, accordion, strings and brass can make melancholy move.
spotlight Feb 10
At Different Fur Studios, the Berkeley-rooted band and a circle of Bay Area musicians turned the opening song from the forthcoming Big Echo into a visible, communal wall of sound.
spotlight Dec 7
In a living-room session for Yours Truly, Miranda removes the band from “Lover, You Should’ve Come Over” without shrinking its emotional architecture.
spotlight Dec 1
Owen Pallett’s intimate San Francisco studio performance offered the first close view of the violent, intricately orchestrated world taking shape on *Heartland*.
spotlight Nov 5
The 2009 Yours Tru.ly performance of “Know Better Learn Faster” stripped away the album’s expanded palette without sacrificing Thao Nguyen’s rhythmic urgency.
feature Oct 17
Before “Down” conquered America, Jay Sean had already reshaped British Asian pop. His career reveals both the possibilities and costs of crossing markets.
spotlight Jul 8
A surviving 2009 notice points back to Dent May’s debut-era pop world: a Mississippi trailer, a portable instrument, theatrical crooning and a carefully negotiated line between sincerity and kitsch.
feature Apr 21
“Rain” made Jeremy Greene a social-network sensation, but label upheaval and blog-era ambiguity complicated a career that later moved beyond music.
spotlight Apr 18
The Lil Wayne collaboration arrived on *Beam Me Up Scotty* in 2009, became Minaj’s first charting track and finally received a fully licensed streaming release in 2021. No authoritative evidence supports the old backlink’s claim of a separate unreleased original mix.