Helen Sun’s lo-fi pop is all intuition

Helen Sun’s lo-fi pop is all intuition

She found a mic in a friend’s trash can and recorded an EP that catapulted her to nascent indie stardom. Letao Chen Helen Sun didn’t expect to blow up. The London-based, Massachusetts-raised singer-songwriter put out her first EP under her own name talk with your Teeth in December 2025. “I just put it on DistroKid,”…

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Sophia Stel lets us into her world in a new FADER doc

Sophia Stel lets us into her world in a new FADER doc

Meet the Canadian singer whose swaggering, genreless music is breaking through. Off the heels of dropping the greatest album of all time, Sophia Stel is now the subject of Greatest, The FADER’s latest documentary, created in partnership with A24 Music, Audio-Technica, and Air. The Vancouver-based pop artist spent three days with director Alex Hodor-Lee for…

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The Weeknd samples Faye Wong on “Hong Kong”

The Weeknd samples Faye Wong on “Hong Kong”

The Canadian singer-songwriter’s unreleased track is a Cantonese love poem to Hong Kong’s influential pop and cinema scenes. The Weeknd sparked joy and nostalgia at Kai Tak Stadium in Hong Kong on Saturday with his performance of unreleased track “Hong Kong”. Sampling Faye Wong from her 1993 hit song “Seasonal Wind” (also known as “Monsoon”),…

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