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....
The major music festival exists at the intersection of commerce, culture, and something that feels like community but is also, fundamentally, a lot of people standing in a...
Art pop is a genre label that functions less as a description of a specific sound and more as a permission slip. It says: this music is doing...
Irish folk and singer-songwriter music has a particular global reach that’s hard to explain purely in terms of the music itself. The tradition runs deep, from the ballad...
Outlaw country was always a correction more than a genre. By the early 1970s, Nashville’s commercial machine had developed such rigid production standards, the lush orchestration and polished...
Post-hardcore emerged from the mid-1980s as the hardcore punk scene started fracturing into artists who wanted to keep the intensity but expand the vocabulary. The Minutemen were doing...
Shoegaze has one of the stranger histories in rock music, partly because the name itself was always an insult that got rehabilitated into a badge. The term was...
Sunn O))) releases their self-titled album on April 3, which gives a useful entry point for thinking about drone and ambient metal, the corner of music where the...
Neo-soul is a term that was always a bit awkward, invented by critics to describe music that didn’t quite fit the categories available at the time. It showed...
Drill music was born in Chicago’s South Side around 2011 and 2012, and the name came before the fame. “Drill” was already street slang in that neighborhood for...
Cloud rap didn’t die. It just became invisible to people who weren’t paying close enough attention. The genre had its peak visibility window somewhere between 2011 and 2016,...
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