Empire of the Sun Follow a 220,000-Ticket Tour With 31 More Shows
Two hundred and twenty thousand people bought a ticket to the last one. That is the figure sitting underneath the Ask That God: Afterlife tour,... Read More
Month: September 2026
Kid Ørbit Slide: the 808 Sound, and Where It Went After 1983
How A Melbourne Melodic Rap Single Inherits the Drum Machine That Built Trap Roland discontinued the TR-808 in 1983, and the machine refused to disappear.... Read More
Sarah Giles Made Don’t Whisper Inside Her Own Live Band and You Can Hear Where It Went
How a Nashville Producer Who Plays in the Band Built a Four-Minute Single Start with one line on the credit list. Chris Kuskey produced Don’t... Read More
Estasi E Veleno Runs on a Programmed Pulse and Giuseppe Cucè Knows Where to Take It
How Two Players and One Sicilian Studio Turned a Cantautore Lyric Into Dance Pop Start with the credit list. It explains the record. On Estasi... Read More
Shygirl Made a Love Song That Sounds Like a Chase Scene
Set those words over piano and strings and you get a ballad. Set them over drums that sound like something is about to happen and you get a different claim.... Read More
The Hyperpop Synth Sound and Where Noah Tonin Took It on LOSE CONTROL 
SynRize Make You Feel: Human Lyrics, AI Production and How to Hear Both 
Vera Soledad y Sangre: Why Eighties Synthwave Keeps Coming Back to Montevideo 
PINLIGHT Over and Over: Why Scottish Synth-Pop Keeps Coming Back