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This Week on coldplaysucks — June 14–21
Read more . . . →Big week, and house ran it. We posted a pile of tracks and the four-on-the-floor crowd showed up deepest — tech house, soulful house, afro house, the works. Drum and bass kept pace right behind, trance refused to die, and somewhere in the middle a bunch of producers flipped songs that have no business still hitting this hard in 2026. Coldplay released nothing. The week improved accordingly. Track of the Week Sigma, Soul II Soul, Capo Lee & Zimma - BACK 2 LIFE (ft. Liv Campbell) Flipping “Back to Life” is a way to get yourself run out of town,...
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They Threatened Him, Interrogated Him, Then Fired Him — But Sure, The Timing Was A Coincidence
Read more . . . →On Tuesday the Fifth Circuit handed down its ruling in the Starbucks union case out of Sylmar, California, and you have to read it twice to believe the shape of it. The court looked at what the company did to a worker named Untaran during the 2022 organizing drive and agreed, on the record, that Starbucks broke the law. It agreed a manager illegally threatened him over the union. It agreed he was illegally interrogated about it. The judges signed their names to all of that. And then the same worker got fired, and the court turned around and said...
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T-Pain, DJ DIESEL, San Holo, NGHTMRE, Kompany, SampliFire & IVORY - STFU
Seven names including Shaq in his DJ DIESEL costume made a track literally called STFU, and against all odds it genuinely bangs hard.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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TLM feat. Merely - Summer Jam
Read more . . . →Some tracks are just honest about what they’re for, and Summer Jam wears its entire purpose in the title. TLM build an uplifting, sun-soaked trance record around Merely’s airy vocal, and the whole thing is engineered to make a festival field feel ten degrees warmer than the forecast. The melody is big and unguarded, the kind that would have soundtracked a main-stage sunset twenty years ago and still does the exact same job today without updating much. There’s a long tradition of trance being a little cheesy and entirely unbothered about it, and this slots happily into that lineage with...
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Serum 2 vs Vital: Stop Overthinking It
Serum 2 vs Vital for music production: Vital's free and nobody hears the difference. You're paying Serum for the preset ecosystem, not the sound.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Stop Calling Everything 'EDM'
'EDM' is a marketing word from 2012, not a genre. House, techno, DnB, dubstep — different countries, different histories. Stop throwing the map away.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Best Free VSTs for Electronic Music in 2026 (Ranked, With Opinions)
The free VST chain that out-produces a $1,000 stack. Vital, OTT, TDR Nova, Valhalla and more — ranked, with opinions, for electronic music in 2026.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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YDG, SampliFire & Z3LLA - Heart On Fire
YDG, SampliFire and Z3LLA somehow keep Heart On Fire focused instead of a sound-design pile-up. Bass music you can actually hum afterward.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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LAR - Dragging You Down
Read more . . . →Where LAR’s other recent cut floats, Dragging You Down has more pull to it — there’s a gentle undertow in the groove that quietly earns the title. It trades some of the airy openness for a slightly heavier, more insistent bassline, the kind that nudges you onto the floor rather than letting you drift past it. The vocal fragments drift in and out like half-heard conversation through a wall, processed down into pure texture rather than anything you’d sing along to. What I appreciate about hearing two LAR tracks close together is how clearly they’re cut from the same cloth...
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The Dead Embed Report: A Third of Our Founding Era Is Already Gone
We checked all 1,357 music videos we ever embedded. 1.6% are dead — but 33-39% of our 2009-2010 founding era is already gone. A link-rot field report.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
