Deep dives into the sounds that define us.
Jazz fusion is the genre that got away with everything. It took jazz’s harmonic language, rock’s volume and rhythmic aggression, funk’s groove, and in some iterations, electronic music’s...
Arlo Parks made a dance record. More precisely, she made an album soaked in UK garage, 2-step, and house music, and it sounds like a completely natural evolution....
Ambient music has spent most of its existence as a genre being politely ignored by the parts of the music industry that count streams and chart positions. That...
There was never a clean origin point. Hyperpop arrived less like a genre announcement and more like a gradual recognition that several overlapping experiments were pointing at the...
Post-punk is the genre that refused to explain itself. Born out of the ashes of punk’s initial explosion in the late 1970s, it took the energy and confrontational...
Drum and bass is one of those genres that gets credited with everything it influenced and almost never credited with being exactly what it is. It spawned dubstep,...
Tems performed “What You Need” on The Tonight Show Thursday night, another data point in an ongoing story about Afrobeats and where it lives now. She stood in...
Shoegaze is named for a posture. The musicians stare at their feet, watching the effects pedals rather than the audience, heads down, faces hidden. For a genre built...
At the 2025 Grammy Awards, Tems won Best African Music Performance for “Love Me JeJe.” Two weeks earlier, Burna Boy had sold out Madison Square Garden for the...
When Blackpink’s Lisa books a Las Vegas residency and becomes the first K-pop artist to do so, that’s not just a business milestone. It’s a signal that the...
Indie rock in 2026 is not what it was in 2006, which is either a statement of the obvious or a more complicated observation depending on how you’re...
House music’s origin story is one of the more specific in popular music history. Chicago, early 1980s, the Warehouse club on South Jefferson Street, DJ Frankie Knuckles playing...
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