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July 15, 2026 at 2:00 PM 4 min read
Is the Superstar DJ Era Over? Yeah, and Good Riddance
The superstar DJ era is over and good riddance. How the press-play frontman lost to Boiler Room, collectives, and amapiano. Yes, we're talking about the cake.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
July 15, 2026 at 11:07 AM 1 min read
Clockvice & Vorso - DUMFUK
Read more . . . →The first drop of “DUMFUK” lands at 0:52 and it genuinely sounds like a server rack falling down a stairwell. Clockvice and Vorso have made something almost aggressively stupid in the best possible way — a Monstercat dubstep cut with zero interest in melody, mood, or your comfort. It’s all texture and impact, growls layered so thick they start to sound organic, like a large animal that is very much not okay. There’s a rhythmic stutter in the second half where the bass gets chopped into a triplet pattern and the whole track briefly turns into a machine gun. I don’t reach for riddim like this often because a lot of it is just noise cosplaying as heaviness, but these two actually arrange the chaos so it goes somewhere. The title is honest marketing. You’re not meant to think during this; you’re meant to make a face. It’s dumb in...
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July 15, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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The one genuinely new thing at Tomorrowland this year
Read more . . . →Here’s the actual news out of this year’s lineup, buried under the headliner circus: on opening Friday, Tomorrowland is running its first full afro house day at the Melodia stage. Not one token DJ shoved into an afternoon slot, a whole bill of South African producers who’ve spent years turning drum patterns into something closer to church. If you only know this festival as big-room fireworks, this is the corner worth walking to. 1. Caiiro - The Akan Caiiro builds tracks like they’re supposed to run twenty minutes, and you resent it when they don’t. The Akan is all rolling toms and a synth line that keeps threatening to resolve and refuses. Put it on a real system and the low end sits right in your sternum. 2. Da Capo - Umbovukazi Seven-plus minutes and it earns every one. Da Capo lets the groove breathe for ages before the vocal...
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July 15, 2026 at 6:37 AM
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Citi Paid Fraser $42 Million to Cut 20,000 Jobs
Read more . . . →Jane Fraser is running Citigroup through the biggest layoff in its modern history — 20,000 jobs on the chopping block, 7,000 already gone — and the board handed her a 22% raise for it. Forty-two million dollars for 2025. The reorganization that emptied those desks is the same reorganization her pay package rewards. She didn’t get paid despite the cuts. She got paid for them. Here’s the part nobody says out loud: at the top, mass firing is a resume line. Every worker she cut was a number that made a slide look better, and the slide is what the compensation committee reads. The people who lost their health insurance in the “modernization” don’t get a modernization bonus. They get a severance letter and a LinkedIn post about being open to work. Twenty thousand households absorbing the hit so one household can clear forty-two million. That’s not a company in...
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July 14, 2026 at 7:05 PM 1 min read
Charles D x TMPR x Inner City - Good Life
Rebooting Inner City's untouchable Good Life is a bold swing. Charles D x TMPR mostly get away with it, keeping Paris Grey's vocal front and centre.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
July 14, 2026 at 2:22 PM 1 min read
Borgeous - In Da Booth
Read more . . . →Borgeous is still alive and making festival bangers, which in 2026 counts as a genuine plot twist. “In Da Booth” is unapologetic big-room throwback material — the exact sound that ate EDM alive around 2014 and then got laughed straight out of the room a couple years later. Here’s the thing though: played this confidently, it still works on a lizard-brain level. A nagging vocal chant, a supersaw lead built for a hundred thousand phone lights, a kick you feel in your sternum. There’s no reinvention on offer and Borgeous clearly wants none of it; this is comfort food for people who peaked at Ultra and know it about themselves. The drop at 1:12 is exactly the drop you’re bracing for and lands hard anyway, which reads as either lazy or honest depending entirely on your mood. I put it on ironically and caught myself doing the double-handed festival point...
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July 14, 2026 at 10:42 AM 1 min read
BAGO - COMPOSURE
Read more . . . →How does a track called “COMPOSURE” end up being the least composed thing I’ve heard all week? BAGO builds the first ninety seconds like a proper liquid roller, all warm pads and a bassline that just purrs, and then torches the whole thing at the drop into something jagged and mechanical. The switch is genuinely disorienting the first time — I caught myself checking the tracklist to make sure it hadn’t skipped to a different song. That contrast is the entire hook: he lulls you into a comedown and then reminds you the club is still very much going. The drums have that Ram Records precision where every hat sounds individually placed by hand. I’ve had the pretty intro stuck in my head, but it’s the ugly second half I keep rewinding to. BAGO’s been putting out this kind of bait-and-switch for a minute, and this is the sharpest the...
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July 14, 2026 at 8:34 AM 1 min read
Tomorrowland turns 20 and the hype is insufferable and mostly earned
Read more . . . →Four days out and my feeds are 90% people you’ll never see again posting the same drone shot of the mainstage. Tomorrowland hits its 20th edition this year, they’ve branded it Consciencia, and yes, most of it is a very expensive Instagram backdrop with a castle stuck on top. But the thing didn’t get this big on nothing. Five tracks that will actually go off in Boom and won’t make you feel stupid for humming them on the flight home. 1. Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike vs Ummet Ozcan - The Hum The Belgian duo are basically Tomorrowland’s house band, and this is the one that turned a chest-thump from Wolf of Wall Street into a stadium chant. That wordless “hum” at the drop is dumb in the best possible way. Ten years on and it still detonates the field the second the chant lands. 2. MEDUZA, Goodboys - Piece...
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July 14, 2026 at 6:36 AM
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BILL Had a Good Quarter, So It Fired a Third of You
Read more . . . →BILL Holdings had a good quarter. Revenue up 13 percent, earnings beat, the kind of numbers a company puts in a press release with an exclamation point. So on May 7 the board did the obvious thing with all that success: it moved to fire up to a third of the company — roughly 700 people out of about 2,333 — and on the exact same day authorized a billion dollars to buy back its own stock. Not a slow quarter. Not a demand cliff. A beat. The money was never missing. There was a billion dollars sitting right there, and the board looked at 700 employees, looked at the share price, and decided the share price needed it more. They called it “organizational agility.” Agility, it turns out, is when you can afford everyone and pick the stock instead. The 30 to 60 million dollars in severance is the...
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July 13, 2026 at 6:40 PM 1 min read
Anaïs, Stylo G & Lady Leshurr - Strong Like Lion
Lady Leshurr comes in already mid-argument on Strong Like Lion and never lets up. Three vocalists, one dubstep riddim, zero taking turns.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
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