NGN (2026). With a sound as bizarre as their appearance, Canadian math rock band Angine de Poitrine has broken out of their subgenre and found an audience hungry for something “deeply human,” a music expert said.

Oxford Bibliographies in Music (2026). Two main ideas govern our approach to this article: (1) there is no single music industry, and (2) music industries are created, driven, and run by human beings. There are a multitude of industries, markets, intermediaries, and musicians. Here, we hope both to address these phenomena and provide a more expansive view of what music industries are and what they do.

The Finest (podcast, 2026). Lou Curtiss dedicated his life to preserving forgotten music — and now his extraordinary personal collection is being shared with the community he nurtured for decades. At Folk Arts Rare Records, thousands of vinyl records, CDs, tapes and rare recordings are being unboxed, cataloged and placed on shelves for music lovers to explore and purchase. In this episode, we meet Brendan Boyle, who began shopping at Folk Arts as a teenager and now owns and runs the store. Along the way, we explore how vinyl survived the '90s and 2000s and why physical media still matters in an age of streaming and digital fatigue.

IASPM-US conference presentation (2026). Our 5+ years of ethnographic data at Furnace Fest reveal a potent intersection of community formation amidst conflicting strategies (and varying resources) for care and recovery. Complicating punk/hardcore, DIY, and subculture ethics, studying this community offers insight to (1) trauma scholarship by examining affective narrative recovery strategies through musical participation, and (2) popular music scholars by demonstrating how communities and scenes form around sharing experiences of and ideas about trauma and recovery.

NGN (2026). Northeastern University professor Andrew Mall said much of the Sphere’s success has to do with the novelty factor.

Slashgear (2026). There are several creations from the '80s that people would love to see make a comeback today, modernized in varying degrees. Not simply because they're remembered so fondly, but because it would actually serve a need and be a sensible idea to do so. Modern technology has transformed society in so many ways, and there's really no comparison between the two eras.

KPBS (2026). Andrew Mall, a professor of music at Northeastern University in Boston, studies media, music consumption and collecting. He said record stores — and the people who work in them — are crucial to local music scenes. In many cities, including San Diego, record stores function as gathering places where people share influences and resources.