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
Alt-Pop
Nessa Barrett Reached for Portishead and Massive Attack on Tough Love
The first thing you hear on Bad Girls Never Die is not a synth. It is a string section and a strummed guitar, recorded with... Read More
Allie X Called Off a Tour Months Early to Protect Her Health
Allie X performing at Electric Brixton, London. Most tour cancellations arrive late. A run is already underway, a date is a fortnight out, and the... Read More
Melanie Martinez HADES Is Only Half the Album
Melanie Martinez performing at Mercy Lounge, 2015. Eighteen tracks, just over seventy minutes, and a closing song called “THE LAST TWO PEOPLE ON EARTH.” For... Read More
Troye Sivan Says This Is the First Time He Didn’t Write About Men
Troye Sivan has built a career on writing about men. His new single is the first song he says he has written that is not... Read More
The Hip-Hop Dance-Pop Sound and Where It Went on Hold Me Close Now! By Gloria May Byron 
Why Chillwave Keeps Coming Back: Goodbye Gravity by Attaboy 
Why Synth-Pop Keeps Coming Back, as Shoshan Dunamis Shows on Have a Sense 
Bright Arpeggios Under a Heavy Heart, and How to Hear Them on LNNY’s Gehen Rafatape Remix