Beyond Music Offers Recording Awards for Twelve Cross-Cultural Collaborations
Eleven artist teams will receive cash awards and professional audio finishing, while a twelfth will record with Ibrahim Maalouf in Miami, under the selection plan for Beyond Music’s next album. The Beyond Music Vol.5 open call is free to enter and welcomes professional musicians across genres. Beyond Music is invitingContinue Reading
Someone Actually Made a Song About Halloween’s Unofficial License to Slut
There are certain things we’ve collectively agreed to accept about Halloween. Pumpkin-flavored everything. Adults spending hundreds of dollars on costumes they’ll wear once. People insisting their outfits are clever when they’re clearly just wearing a bedsheet. And, of course, the annual transformation of perfectly ordinary people into sexy nurses, sexyContinue Reading
Carδamo pushes the boundaries of experimental pop with dazzling new mixtape ‘Tomodachi ☆ Kimitachi’
Experimental-pop artist Carδamo delivers an exhilarating celebration of creativity, friendship and musical freedom with the ambitious new mixtape ‘Tomodachi ☆ Kimitachi’. Bringing together singles released throughout 2025 and 2026 alongside previously unheard material, the project sees Carδamo embrace an extraordinary range of influences, from hyperpop and alternative R&B to electronic dance musicContinue Reading
The Wheel Workers explore the beauty of unfinished things on ‘One More Thing To Say’
Not everything abandoned is a failure. Sometimes life simply moves faster than art. That thought hangs over One More Thing To Say, the remarkable eighth album from The Wheel Workers, whose origins stretch back to an earlier version of the Texas collective more than twenty years ago. There’s an inherent melancholyContinue Reading
Losem examine self-sabotage on ‘Hangnail’
‘Hangnail’ finds Kels Taylor using the Losem project to move into a more forceful and experimental version of their songwriting. The Nashville-based artist has described Losem as a departure from their classical and folk-rock background, and this new single reflects that shift clearly. Here, the track uses heavier dynamics andContinue Reading
Peter Stone finds home in the beautiful friction of ‘Dust Motes’
‘Dust Motes’ is a love song that refuses to pretend intimacy is clean. Taken from Peter Stone’s forthcoming second album Hearth, the track follows the loneliness of earlier single ‘Loveseat’ with a portrait of partnership built from domestic detail, tenderness, irritation, growth and the knowledge that loving deeply also means acceptingContinue Reading
MäRK explore unease and resistance on ‘The Eleventh Hour’
The Eleventh Hour introduces Swedish-Danish duo MäRK with a debut album that brings together electronica, industrial textures, krautrock and trip-hop within a distinctly theatrical framework. Helena Berglund and Christian Rønn describe their approach as “electronica poetica”, and the term suits a record where sound design and lyrical themes are given equalContinue Reading
Chatrooms let the light crack open on ‘Helio’
‘Helio’ begins in warmth and gradually reveals something far less comfortable underneath. The new single from San Fernando Valley band Chatrooms takes its name from the Greek word for “sun”, and that brightness is reflected in the song’s opening character. Melodic, reassuring and relatively open, it initially feels closer toContinue Reading
Hurb Jephasun leaves the cracks exposed on ‘In The End’
There’s a refusal to tidy things up at the centre of In The End. The new four-track EP from Australian outsider artist Hurb Jephasun is deliberately left raw, preserving room noise, breath, imperfect vocals and the physical presence of the instruments. It’s an approach that certainly suits an artist whose historyContinue Reading
Beyond The Music: ColliderScopeCollective puts psychology at the heart of artist development
Copenhagen-based music publisher and management company ColliderScopeCollective (CSC) is taking a different approach to artist development, placing communication, trust and psychological understanding at the centre of its creative operations. Founded by Simon Dilling, the collective connects songwriters, artists and producers across Copenhagen and Los Angeles, with its roster holding credits involving Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift, Omar Apollo and Green Day. In a move that challenges traditional music industry practices, CSC has partnered with clinical psychologist Simon Gentsof Stem Sindet to introduce structured psychological workshops into the collective’s everyday working environment. But rather than focusing solely on individual wellbeing, the initiative explores how artists and producers communicate, manage creative disagreements, establish responsibilities and build stronger professional relationships. Following three workshops in Copenhagen, the programme will continue throughout 2027, with plans to extend the approach to CSC’s LA roster. The collaboration could also develop into a series of talks examining the relationship between psychological understanding and sustainable creative careers. We caught up with ColliderScopeCollective to discuss the inspiration behind the initiative, bringing clinical psychology into music management, overcoming communication barriers within creative teams and whether this approach could offer a different model for the wider music industry. – ColliderScopeCollective has taken the unusual step of bringing a clinical psychologist into its creative and professional environment. What first inspired this decision, and what did you feel was missing from the traditional music managementContinue Reading