2020s

The Barn Full of Vinyl That Built a Billion Streams

Stephen Sanchez | Until I Found You A Song Out of Time A song that sounds like 1958 has two billion streams in 2024. It’s not retro cosplay. Stephen Sanchez grew up digging through his grandfather’s discarded vinyl in a barn in San Jose, and the fifties got into his bones before he knew what […]

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Royel Otis Got Famous Playing Other People’s Songs

Royel Otis | Artist Feature The Sexy Sword Royel Otis have a billion streams but are best known for two covers, a paradox that says more about them than any hit single could, and one that keeps getting stranger the closer you look. Here’s a fun exercise. Name the two biggest Royel Otis moments. Not

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Sabrina Carpenter Promised Coachella She’d Be Back

Sabrina Carpenter | Coachella 2026 Feature Woman of Her Word Sabrina Carpenter closed her 2024 Coachella set with a promise to come back as headliner. Two years later, she’s topping Friday’s poster, at a festival that badly needed her. April 19, 2024. Weekend 2 at Coachella. The sun is dipping behind the Empire Polo Club

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The Banger Teddy Swims Wrote to Save His Own Life

Teddy Swims | The Door The Song That Won’t Leave “The Door” sounds like a celebration and reads like a survivor’s testimony, and that tension is exactly the point. There’s a specific kind of song that sneaks up on you. You’re in a grocery store, or a bar, or someone’s car, and something starts playing

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