Long reads, artist conversations, and production deep-dives from the team behind Trending Radio. New essays every Tuesday and Friday.
Producer Inês Carvalho opens the door to Studio Marvila — a 14-square-meter room where six hosts, three cats, and one stubborn analog console broadcast to 480,000 listeners a week. We spent a month inside.
Inside: the cables, the coffee, the 4 a.m. call-ins, and why the team refuses to move to a "real" studio.
Reporting, interviews, and audio craft notes — written by people who actually run a transmitter for a living.
A look at the engineering trade-offs behind our signature warm signal — and what commercial producers are getting wrong about "loudness wars."
Read essayThe 27-year-old singer on recording her sophomore album in a forest, leaving Spotify's algorithm behind, and why she'll never make a club track.
Read conversationFrom Marseille to Mexico City, low-wattage rebels are building audiences faster than the legacy broadcasters. A field report from four transmitters under 50 watts.
Read reportNo algorithmic ranking, no streaming data. Just the tracks our on-air team played on repeat this October, with one sentence from each host.
Open the playlistWhy we cut the top-of-hour newsread, what the new jingle package sounds like at 2 a.m., and how listener mail still shapes our editorial calendar.
Read the memoOne long read, one interview excerpt, and the five tracks our hosts can't stop playing. No filler, no algorithm — unsubscribe with a single click.