Music

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE This week 7 releases worth your time — swipe →

Mitsutsuki’s third solo setlist arrives on Spotify as a

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 01 · MUSIC Ten new songs from Japan’s domestic indie circuit, released without a campaign and named after the live show they come from. Mitsutsuki’s… Read our review →

Ariana Grande on ‘Petal’

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 02 · MUSIC Ariana Grande calls her new album Petal ‘unfiltered rage.’ The real creative choice isn’t the anger — it’s that pop’s most controlled… Read our review →

PASHANIM’s “Augenblick” clocks nearly 400,000 YouTube views in two

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 03 · MUSIC The Berlin-based rapper PASHANIM releases “Augenblick” (German for “instant”), a hushed, introspective single that has found an audience well beyond Germany’s borders… Read our review →

Charli xcx turns Music, Fashion, Film into a YouTube

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 04 · MUSIC Charli xcx’s latest album arrives not as a Spotify release but as a feature-length YouTube film, bundling eleven tracks inside a continuous… Read our review →

Karol G reveals her new album

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 05 · MUSIC Karol G stopped a record-setting Toronto stadium show to announce No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto — and the title reads like… Read our review →

Why K-pop groups wrap their albums in fictional universes

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 06 · MUSIC Across BTS's HYYH saga, aespa's KWANGYA, and ATEEZ's Strictland, K-pop's fictional mythologies have become something music marketing rarely produces — infrastructure that… Read our review →

With Carlinhos Brown, Jota Quest turns ‘Que Beleza’ into

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 07 · MUSIC The Brazilian rock band’s new single, featuring Carlinhos Brown and Os Garotin, crossed 200,000 YouTube views without Spotify — and proposes optimism… Read our review →