Analyzing The Music Industry’s One-Hit Wonder

Through consideration of everything from society’s obsession with novelty to the well-known curse of the second album, High Snobiety writer Aleks Eror poses an in-depth analysis of the one-hit wonder. With stunning facts, “nearly half of all musicians that created a chart hit in the half-century in between 1955 and 2005 never did so again,” and a thoughtful approach to marketing, originality and the zeitgeist, …

Julia Holter: Silhouette

A new live recording from London’s RAK Studios, “Silhouette” is an undeniably impressive demonstration of Julia Holter’s talents. The track hails from her forthcoming album In The Same Room, which Holter and her band recorded over two days at RAK—reworking tracks from her previous three albums with vibrance and imagination. In The Same Room releases 31 March as the first album off Domino Documents, an …

“Plan Bee” Drone Pollinators

The impact of our global bee population is undeniable—from pollinating crops and wildflowers to producing honey. To draw awareness to the current bee crisis, industrial designer Anna Haldewag has imagined an alternative and produced a prototype. The “Plan Bee” is a self-sustaining drone, mimicking the shape of a flower and the color patterns of a bee. It’s able to pull pollen up from one flower …