Deep dives into the sounds that define us.
Footwork did not ask to be discovered. It emerged from Chicago’s South Side in the late 1990s as an evolution of ghetto house, built for battle: two dancers...
There’s been a quiet but unmistakable shift happening in pop music. Call it the return of the low-key. After years of maximalism, hyperpop production, and the relentless sonic...
Maná just played Miami on their Vivir Sin Aire tour, and the crowd was enormous. This is not news in the sense that anything unexpected occurred. Maná filling...
Post-punk is one of the more misunderstood genre labels in rock history, partly because it describes a posture as much as a sound, and partly because the posture...
Grime did not announce itself. It arrived in the early 2000s out of East London, out of pirate radio and estate-block living rooms, out of a moment when...
Shoegaze was not supposed to have a second act. The genre peaked in the early 1990s, burned bright, got swallowed by Britpop’s sharper edges and American grunge’s commercial...
Americana is a genre that has never quite agreed on what it is, and that instability is a feature, not a bug. It emerged as a formal category...
Ska-punk has always had a branding problem. The name conjures a specific image: horns over distorted guitars, fast tempos, a singer in cargo shorts delivering what feels like...
Trip-hop is the genre name that nobody in the genre particularly wanted. Massive Attack resisted it. Portishead mostly ignored it. Tricky rejected it outright and spent the rest...
Math rock is probably the most misleading genre name in contemporary music, and that is saying something in a field that includes shoegaze, post-rock, and emo. The name...
There is a moment in a certain kind of song where the guitar riff stops being about tension and starts being about release, and the beat underneath it...
Noise rock has an image problem that it has never entirely tried to solve. The name is off-putting to people who do not know it, and accurate enough...
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