Emma Madden

1 month ago | pitchfork.com | Emma Madden

On her fourth album, the ambient folk artist Satomimagae imagines a world without names, lines, or borders—anything that could distinguish one thing from an absolute whole. What we might call “leaves” on “trees” here are simply shades upon shades. Every difference is negated. Listening to it feels like waking up from anesthetic, an experience in which there is no delineation between self and other, inner and outer.

1 month ago | l8r.it | Emma Madden

It’s January when we meet Courtney LaPlante in Los Angeles, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. The air is thick. It’s difficult to breathe. Her Canadian progressive metalcore outfit, Spiritbox, stand at the threshold of what may be their most transformative year yet — and just days ago, wildfires tore through much of the singer’s adopted hometown. The L.A. sky is burnt orange. Families remain in evacuation shelters.

1 month ago | revolvermag.com | Emma Madden

It’s January when we meet Courtney LaPlante in Los Angeles, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. The air is thick. It’s difficult to breathe. Her Canadian progressive metalcore outfit, Spiritbox, stand at the threshold of what may be their most transformative year yet — and just days ago, wildfires tore through much of the singer’s adopted hometown. The L.A. sky is burnt orange. Families remain in evacuation shelters. “I think this fire’s changed everyone,” says LaPlante.

1 month ago | pitchfork.com | Emma Madden

Salami Rose Joe Louis is Captain Beefheart for synth heads who grew up watching Adult Swim. She debuted in a punk band playing the blender (as in the household appliance). She named her first album Son of a Sauce!, her second Zlaty Sauce Nephew. She then followed those, naturally, with a handful of grand sci-fi concept albums. Before she was Salami Rose Joe Louis, Lindsay Olsen was a scientist studying the ocean’s acidity.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Emma Madden

There is a “third party” in Gwen Stefani’s marriage to Blake Shelton — just not in the way fans may initially assume. On the Wednesday, April 23 …