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...
The Cockroaches are back. If you know your Rolling Stones lore, that sentence lands differently than it would for most bands. The Cockroaches was the name the Stones...
Post-rock doesn’t have a verse-chorus-bridge. It doesn’t have hooks in the traditional sense. It rarely has lyrics, and when it does, they tend to be treated more as...
Reggae is one of the few genres that managed to export an entire worldview alongside its music. Other styles travel in sound. Reggae traveled in sound, philosophy, spirituality,...
Billy Joel’s record-breaking 100th Madison Square Garden residency show is finally getting the home video treatment it deserves. A full Blu-ray and DVD release of the landmark March...
Neo-soul came into the world with a borrowed name and ended up building one of the most influential sounds of the last thirty years. The term was coined...
On March 30, a federal judge dismissed a copyright infringement lawsuit targeting Cardi B over her 2024 hit “Enough (Miami),” and the ruling was less a vindication than...
Metal has a gatekeeping problem that it refuses to solve, and that refusal is actually part of what makes the genre interesting. No other style of music argues...
There was a moment at Alexandra Palace last Saturday night when the crowd probably forgot which half of the duo was which. Thomas Bangalter, one half of Daft...
UK garage arrived in the mid-1990s without permission and refused to leave. It borrowed the skeleton of American house and R&B, rebuilt it with British swing, compressed it...
Muse have announced The Wow! Signal Tour, a sprawling North American run set to kick off on July 2 at Summerfest in Milwaukee. The tour is their most...
Dream pop does not announce itself. It arrives the way that certain feelings do, as an ambient pressure, a gradual shift in light rather than a sudden intrusion....
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