Whether you’re sweltering or freezing, curl up with the electronic device of your choice and check out what our writers have to offer:
- For Tone Glow, Micha Cavaseno rounded up the second quarter of 2019 in rap releases, and Ryo Miyauchi did the same for J-pop.
- Joshua Minsoo Kim (the brains behind Tone Glow) has been covering some Hidden Gems for Bandcamp Daily: “Secret Garden” by Haco, “Isan Soul” by Rasmee, “Marée Basse” by Vendredi sur Mer, and “Tropix” by Céu.
- For Remezcla, Josh Langhoff considered how the untimely deaths of Selena and Ariel Camacho influenced their respective musical genres.
- For his blog, Thomas Inskeep went back to the hits on the U.S. chart of July 20, 1974. “We all died a little, didn’t we?”
- On Medium, Iain Mew posted an essay on Championship Manager ’93, peer pressure, and the strict confines of masculine performance.