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...
Pepsi has pulled its presenting sponsorship from London’s Wireless Festival, and Diageo, the drinks conglomerate behind Johnnie Walker and Captain Morgan, quickly followed. The cause: the booking of...
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....
Jack White walked out of SNL’s Studio 8H on Saturday night having done something quietly remarkable: he made people remember why he exists. That’s not a knock. It’s...
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...
The internet’s memory is imperfect. Artists die, platforms disappear, and suddenly a body of work that shaped a generation becomes hard to find, poorly documented, or tangled up...
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...
Eight years is a long time to be away. In the music world, eight years is enough for entire scenes to rise and collapse, for streaming to swallow...
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...
Thundercat has spent the better part of a decade making music that shouldn’t work on paper. Bass solos that double as comedy. Grief songs that somehow make you...
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,...
James Gadson died on April 2, 2026, at 86. The announcement confirmed what anyone who has ever listened closely to “Lean on Me” or “Use Me” already suspected:...
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