• Hannah Jocelyn interviewed Bartees Strange about his debut album, his musical upbringing, and Black rock music for Grammy.com: “I’ve learned in making music that sometimes you have to be your own biggest fan, and you have to build the thing that no one else knows is real yet.”

Several TSJ writers have active blog presences!

• Jessica Doyle’s blog Brain Sister is up and running again: check out her most recent post about the disbandment of Qazaq-pop group Sevenlight and the future of Q-pop: “The problem Q-pop is facing as a whole is, when you’re limited to one market, and that one market starts to shrink, what are your options?”
• David Cooper Moore wrote about Björk, Frozen, and other winter-related things on his Medium blog: “Vespertine has long been my favorite Björk album because of the way it conjures warmth in the center of an ice castle — it’s her Elsa album.”
• Kayla Beardslee shared the first and second installments of her new series, Songs I Want to Write About, on her blog Pop Excellence: “Sometimes I want to be smacked in the face by synths.”