The Guardian traced how the multinational girl group Katseye became one of pop's biggest new acts this year even as members' own accounts point to a group under real strain.
Stereogum and Pitchfork both ran a heavy day of album news, Mac DeMarco surprising with four albums at once, Erykah Badu and the Alchemist releasing Before the World Blows, and new work from Dominic Fike, Trentemoller and Angele.
The art world kept mourning Yayoi Kusama, the Atlantic on the limits of her infinity rooms, Hyperallergic on the field's own reaction, while also working two theft stories at once, a Vienna museum's diamond necklace and a Spanish museum's Bronze Age treasures, alongside the UK's export ban on a 71 million pound Rembrandt.
Eater argued the practice of asking still or sparkling needs to end, and Feed Me reported a New York establishment now banning smart glasses for life.