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Arcade Fire at Twenty: Still Looking for Signal
Two decades after Funeral, the Montreal collective is still writing songs that feel like transmissions from a slightly better world. We spent a week with their live rig.
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Long-form essays, scene reports, and investigative stories about the music world and the culture around it.
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The Slow Return of the Album
In an era of playlists and 90-second attention spans, why are more musicians than ever insisting on the album as a form?
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The Festival Economy Is Breaking. What Comes Next?
Three major festivals cancelled this summer. The ones that happened lost money. The business model that defined live music for a decade is finally buckling.
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Why Shoegaze Is Back, and What That Says About 2026
From Slowdive’s stadium tour to a wave of twenty-year-old bands discovering reverb, the genre no one would commit to in 2012 is suddenly everywhere.