Cover Stories

• Back to school with Dillon Francis: Why a maturing music career still needs class clown antics - MusicTech

• Julien Baker on musical imagery, collaborative writing and scoring Orphan Black - Composer Magazine

• Light Place, Right Time: LP Giobbi is a beacon for budding artists - MusicTech

• The Newton Brothers on Music, Obsession, and the Stories That Unite Them - Blank Magazine

Profiles

• The Sound Of Collision: Boygenius Discuss Creating 'The Rest,' Their Deepening Friendship & Identities - GRAMMY

• Meet Derrick Hodge, The Composer Orchestrating Hip-Hop's Symphony - GRAMMY

• Six Strings & Feeling: Inside Johnny Marr’s Famous Riffs & Guitar Legacy - GRAMMY

• Artist of the Month: Skream - Beatportal

• Zeds Dead sampled a century of sound to create their new sci-fi bass odyssey - MusicTech

• How KOAN Sound built a galaxy for their new album, Led By Ancient Light: “It felt like being a beginner again” - MusicTech

• Kerri Chandler's homage to nightclubs - Meridian

• Artist of the Month: RÜFÜS DU SOL - Beatportal

• Artist of the Month: The Martinez Brothers - Beatportal

• Squirrel Flower on why dynamics matter: “I don’t like guitar music that’s just loud the whole time” - Guitar.com

• Flight Facilities On Waiting Seven Years To Release Its Second Album: ‘Once You Hate It, It’s Ready’- Billboard

• After Briefly Losing Her Hearing & Getting Marooned During Lockdown, Anna Lunoe Nearly Left Music — Now She’s Touring Again - Billboard

• Barclay Crenshaw Is Making His Low-End Dreams Come True - SPIN

• Carl Cox is evolving in live dance music: “Instruments don’t play themselves; you have to create the sounds” - MusicTech

• Why Hayla is ready to be more than the ‘featured vocalist’ on your favourite DJ’s biggest songs - MusicTech

• Living Legends: Electronic Music Pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre's 50-Year Odyssey Of Audio Experimentation - GRAMMY

Reported Features & Trend Pieces

• The Heart and Resilience of Iran’s Dance Music Community - Beatportal

• Why Dance Music Vocalists Should Be Headliners - Gray Area

• The Rise Of Underground House: How Artists Like Fisher & Acraze Have Taken Tech House, Other Electronic Genres From Indie To EDC - GRAMMY

• How does metal music fit into EDM? “When it’s done well, it always works” - MusicTech

• How the 360-degree stage format is taking over the electronic music industry - MusicTech

Data Journalism

• Orchestras Are Stealing the Spotlight at Coachella and Beyond - Chartmetric

• Do Albums Still Matter, and Which Artists Should be Releasing Them? - Chartmetric

• Has Charli xcx Reinvented the Remix Album? The Numbers Behind 'Brat and it's completely different but its also still brat' - Chartmetric

• The Growing Presence of Electronic Music at Music Festivals - Chartmetric

• The Historic, Cultural, and Statistical Impact of 'Saturday Night Live' on Music - Chartmetric

• Thanks to Legacy Recordings, Classic Rock Bands Haven't Stopped Rockin' - Chartmetric

• Is the California Exodus Creating More Music Cities? - Chartmetric

• Why the Holiday Music Season is Getting Longer and Longer - Chartmetric

• Why Authenticity Wins: Doechii, SZA, and the Era of Honest Women in Hip-Hop - Chartmetric

Gaming

• The Rave & Video Game Legacy of CoLD SToRAGE’s wipE’out” Soundtrack - Beatportal

• First-person shooter - Digital Frontier

• Will GTA 6 change the way gamers discover music? - MusicTech

Soundtracks/Orchestral Works/Scoring

• “Don’t turn the music into the wallpaper in a kid’s bedroom”: Two video game soundtrackers on crafting music that players actually hear - MusicTech

• How Hollywood Scoring built a scoring stage for the modern movie business - MusicTech

Technology

• Metaverse homes for music superfans - Digital Frontier

• Why Sacred Society use spatial audio to enhance relaxing ambient music - MusicTech

• “Instead of robotics replacing musicians, there’s a big opportunity for extension and augmentation”: Finis Musicae on programming robots to play live instruments - MusicTech

• Unable to Tour, Some Artists see a Vital Lifeline in Online Education - Beatportal

Travel

Local Stories

• Everything You Need to Know to See a Concert at the Hollywood Bowl

• Two Howlin’ Rays Cooks Flew the Coop and Opened a Hot Chicken Joint of Their Own - Los Angeles Magazine

• MØAA’s Origin Story Is Pure Seattle - Seattle Met

• Seth Troxler's Dream Access TV Harkens Back to the Days of Public-Access Television - Miami New Times

• Nala Steps Into the Dirtybird Family with Psychic Attack - Miami New Times

• House music legend Claude VonStroke to return to S.F. - SF Examiner

• Underground DJ Sets Are Popping Up in Iconic LA Spots, Including the Walk of Fame - Thrillist

• Matoma Left Atlantic Records to Strike Out on His Own - Denver Westword

• Kaskade (And a Very Famous Special Guest) Made History With the First Public Concert At LA's SoFi Stadium - Billboard

• The Most Anticipated New Restaurant in LA Is Where Anderson .Paak Jams With Lil Jon - Thrillist

• This Roaming Concert Series Is Basically the Traveling Version of the Sphere - Thrillist

Investigative Journalism

• The Family of Kilyn Lewis is Fighting to be Heard by Aurora City Council  - Out Front Magazine

• Aurora City Council Continues to Falter on Funding Aurora Pride - Out Front Magazine

Essays/Op-Eds

• Still Feeling Good: Gorillaz’s Demon Days at 20 - FLOOD Magazine

• Opinion: Anyma Made History at Sphere (Whether You Like It Or Not) - Beatportal

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