almost monday, Courtesy: Cole Ferguson. This was going to be a breakout year for San Diego pop trio almost monday. In a way it still is, thanks to the streaming and radio success of runaway hit “broken people.” Still, after beginning 2020 by opening for AJR, almost monday were…

Max Berga is Swedish-born, and he believes that because of that, he is ingrained with the Swedish Hit Factory-centric determination to build the perfect pop song. His biggest challenge, at least initially, was find a cast of characters to fill a band—and then to stick around long enough to…