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...
Sublime announcing their first album in thirty years is, among other things, a reminder of how strange ska-punk’s place in music history actually is. The genre had one...
When Vince Clarke, Neil Arthur, and Benge announced their Doublespeak project this week, the coverage framed it as a reunion of sorts, veterans of the British synth-pop era...
Something interesting has been happening in British soul and R&B for the better part of a decade, and it has been happening mostly without a convenient name to...
There is a tendency to treat shoegaze as a period piece: a genre that lived inside a specific window of British music history, made a few defining records...
The title of the article sitting in your algorithm right now probably says Central Cee. Or Pop Smoke. Or maybe it reaches back to Headie One. There is...
Post-punk is in one of its periodic golden moments, and if you have been paying any attention at all to the last few years of guitar-based music, you...
TLC, Salt-N-Pepa, and En Vogue are going on tour together this summer. Before we get into what that means culturally, appreciate what is being described here: three of...
Screamo's mainstream moment made it easy to dismiss - but the actual underground never stopped, and what it's been doing is worth paying attention to.
K-pop isn't a genre - it's an industrial system that happens to produce music across every genre. Understanding the infrastructure helps explain why it took over the world.
Indie folk took a critical beating and mostly deserved it - but the backlash threw out the genuine craft with the imitations. Here's what the genre actually is when it's working.
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