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...
Taylor Swift dropped the music video for “Elizabeth Taylor” on Tuesday, and it is exactly what it sounds like: a fan edit she made herself and decided was...
Brian Eno coined the term ambient music in 1978 with Ambient 1: Music for Airports, but the idea had been building for decades. Erik Satie had written furniture...
Charli XCX has announced an expanded run of tour dates for 2026, bringing the Brat World Tour into arenas across North America and Europe following one of the...
Lambrini Girls dropped their first new music in over a year this week. “Cult of Celebrity” is a snarling two-minute takedown of wealth and status, and it lands...
Bossa nova arrived fully formed in 1958 with Joao Gilberto’s recording of Chega de Saudade, and it has spent the decades since being studied, imitated, and borrowed from...
Céline Dion is going back on stage. On March 30th, she announced a 10-night residency at Paris La Défense Arena beginning September 12, 2026. These will be her...
Emo did not have a clean origin story and it never developed one. That is one of the reasons it persisted when it should have been a footnote,...
Metallica announced their Las Vegas Sphere residency in February, and by most measures, the demand was expected. They are Metallica. But what has happened since then tells a...
Progressive rock has always had an image problem, and it has always been the wrong one. The caricature is musicians in capes playing twenty-minute songs about wizards and...
David Byrne performed “When We Are Singing” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Monday night, bringing his full theatrical ensemble to late-night television and using the moment...
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