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...
Shoegaze was never supposed to be a genre. The name was a joke, coined by a British music press that was annoyed at how intently the bands stared...
Americana is the genre that exists to house all the music that does not fit anywhere else, which makes it either the most generous category in popular music...
Garage rock has always been the part of rock music that refuses to clean up after itself. It is loud on purpose, rough on purpose, deliberately uninterested in...
Latin pop has a problem that most genres would love to have. It is too big, too varied, and too successful to be contained in a single story....
R&B is not a genre. It is a container that has held completely different things at different points in American music history, and calling it a genre is...
Hip-hop began on a block party turntable in the South Bronx in the summer of 1973 and became, over the following fifty years, the most globally dominant musical...
Heavy metal is the genre that everyone has an opinion about and almost nobody can define precisely. Ask ten metal fans what counts as metal and you will...
Jazz has a marketing problem that it has had for decades and mostly does not care about. The genre resists the simplifications that make things easy to explain...
Sublime just announced their first album in thirty years, and ska-punk is suddenly a topic again. Until the Sun Explodes comes out June 12 via Atlantic, with Jakob...
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