Candese Charles

How Wax Motif Uses Live Crowds and Social Media to Test Unreleased Music

August 26, 2026

Wax Motif has spent all spring and summer this year bringing his sophomore album, House of Wax II, to dance floors around the world. But some of the dropped tracks filling his iconic sets have yet to be relea... Read More...

Nostalgia, Analog, and 2016 Energy: What So Not Brings Cinema-Scale Trap Back to the Underground

Candese Charles

August 25, 2026

Artists are known for changing creative direction once or twice in their careers, and this year, genre-defining Australian electronic music producer and DJ, What So Not, entered a new artistic chapter. Dropp... Read More...

What Electric Forest Revealed About the Future of PLUR

Candese Charles

August 23, 2026

For decades, the electronic dance music community has rallied around four letters: PLUR. But in the wake of multiple tragedies at Electric Forest, the guiding values of ‘Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect’ appea... Read More...

Can We Sue Our Way to AI Control?

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You Release Music and Chase The Audience.

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You Wrote the Music. Who Gets the Value? A Special Interview With One of the Most Influential Figures In Music Publishing

Nostalgia, Analog, and 2016 Energy: What So Not Brings Cinema-Scale Trap Back to the Underground

What Electric Forest Revealed About the Future of PLUR

Author Candese Charles