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...
Afrobeats did not ask for permission to go global. It just went. Over the past decade, the music coming out of Lagos and Accra and London’s Nigerian diaspora...
Paul McCartney announced yesterday that he is releasing his 18th solo album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, on May 29, 2026, and that he will play a handful...
Grunge was always an uncomfortable genre even for the people who made it. The musicians most associated with it largely rejected the label, hated the word, and watched...
Addison Rae’s debut album Addison arrived last week with the kind of critical uncertainty that follows any pop record made by a TikTok star who has somehow outlasted...
Drum and bass did not ask for permission to exist. It did not arrive with a theory or a manifesto. It emerged out of London’s rave underground in...
King Tuff is back to basics, and the timing couldn’t be better. On March 27, Kyle Thomas dropped Moo, his seventh album under the King Tuff name, through...
Disco has been easy to dismiss since before it ended. The Disco Demolition Night in Chicago in 1979, when a crate of disco records was blown up on...
Two U.S. Army Apache attack helicopters flew low over Kid Rock’s house in Whites Creek, Tennessee last weekend, circling the property four times before departing. Kid Rock posted...
Indie pop has always had an identity problem, and that is entirely the point. The genre that defined itself by refusing definition has spent four decades proving that...
A petition demanding the immediate closure of the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas landed this week with names attached that nobody in the music industry can ignore....
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