It’s a bumper week for your regular chance to find out what else our writers have been up to:
- Leonel Manzanares de la Rosa produced a first quarter K-Pop report including a bunch of our high scoring songs for Bizarro FM (in Spanish),
- Josh Langhoff has posted a Q1 top singles list on his NorteñoBlog.
- Keeping things even more recent, Will Adams rounded up five albums from March on his tumblr, including Miike Snow and Gwen Stefani.
- Alfred Soto and Thomas Inskeep have each gone back twenty years to discuss the US Hot 100 top 10 this week in 1996.
- Alfred also reviewed the new Pet Shop Boys album for Spin.
- Brad Shoup wrote about Chicago, and how they (and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) choose to remember themselves, for Stereogum.
- Danilo Bortoli reviewed the new Colin Stetson album for Unrecorded. Patrick St. Michel talked to the guy who started the label that’s home to Kyary Pamyu Pamyu and Gesu no Kiwami Otome, among others, for the Japan Times.
- … and Mo Kim has kindly ghostwritten a new single for Iggy Azalea.