A Day in the Life (Nov. 2025)
By Serenna Zingg
Hello mates,
It’s Zinggo Starr here - greetings from Iceland!
It’s three weeks after our launch, and we are buzzing on fresh ideas, inspiration harvested from landing on the most fertile soil for creatives, and conversations about where to head next with the blog.
This month is bound to be a varied one content-wise: on my end of the deal, I have interviews lined up from a UK festival, as well as surely some industry-related pieces from my upcoming experience at Iceland Airwaves. For the producer nerds following the site, I’ll be speaking with house-electronica sextet Adult DVD about the nitty-gritties of their creative process from a technical and sonic perspective. For those who still partially believe “Indie rock is dead”, I’ll be disproving it alongside brilliant breakout rock band The Clause, whose debut album release "Victim of a Casual Thing" made it to the iTunes Top 10. And for fans of Big Thief, I’ve excavated the seedy underbelly of Spotify to find the next band reminiscent of their sound. Not only so, I managed to score an interview with Divorce: to prepare yourself, be sure to check out the album review I wrote for their newest record, "Drive to Goldenhammer." Furthermore, seeing as I’m writing this from Reykjavik as a press associate at Iceland Airwaves, a wave of editorials/thinkpieces on the state on the future of experimental festivals and music, as well as a fresh talent artist roundup, are just around the corner. On another note, I’m moving to London soon, meaning our upcoming section Across the Universe will be well-fed for at least a couple of months!
Apparently, you can’t escape UK influences when you take a gander at our site even from our Seattle correspondent, as Olivia will be posting a classic album review of Manic Street Preachers’ "The Holy Bible." She also took on the burden/honor of writing the Bumbershoot festival review where we had the privilege of speaking with the legendary Digable Planets, Fat Dog, and more about their Bumbershoot experience. Otherwise, we collaborated on the monthly mixtape to bring you a review of what tracks have kept us fueled this month during hours of writing.
Despite still being in the beginning stages of product development, we really believe in what we’re doing and we want to grow a community around music that feels homey, personalized, and genuinely useful to you as a music fan. Thank you for following us at the very beginning stages of our journey - remember that we are very much open to feedback and collaboration.
For more casual music enthusiasts, if you engage in an Instagram post with us and tag/follow @serennazmusicjournalism and @groundzeroradio, I’ll personally DM you ten music recommendations within twenty-four hours once you answer a couple of questions about what you’ve been rocking out to recently: above all, we want Paperblog Writers to be a community that genuinely brings value to those that engage with us. We appreciate you!
Cheers,
Serenna Zingg