Features

The Bedroom Symphony

Field Notes from a Year of Home Recording

One laptop, one microphone, one room that is never quiet. The working diary of a record made between 9 p.m. and midnight.

By Elise Martel

Tape & Glass

How a Broken Reel Made Their Best Record

A snapped transport belt, a borrowed splice block and the accident that became the album's defining sound.

By Jonas Whitfield

North Circuit

The Last Independent Venue on Meridian Street

Three hundred capacity, one working smoke machine, zero corporate sponsorship. A night inside the room the city forgot to close.

By Rosa Lindqvist