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...
Joni Mitchell walked onto the stage at the 2026 Juno Awards and received a standing ovation before she had said a single word. That detail matters. Not because...
Jazz is one of the few genres in popular music that has successfully convinced people it requires a special kind of listening. That reputation has done it both...
The music industry has been watching the Anna’s Archive situation unfold with a mixture of alarm and bitter satisfaction, and on March 28 the legal machinery finally caught...
House music was born in a specific time and place, Chicago in the early 1980s, in the clubs that formed after disco’s commercial collapse left a hole in...
Taylor Swift has been sued by a Las Vegas showgirl performer over the name of her most recent album, and the lawsuit lands at an interesting time for...
Country music has been having an identity crisis for so long that the crisis has become the identity. The debates about what qualifies as country, who belongs in...
There is a version of the Teenage Cancer Trust concert series that functions as a pleasant charity benefit, and then there is the version Robert Smith put together...
Soul music does not need a definition. It needs a listen. Put on Aretha Franklin’s “I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You” from 1967, or...
Six years is a long time to be away. For Céline Dion, those years were not spent resting or waiting for the right moment. She was fighting stiff-person...
Hip-hop is fifty years old and still being described as a genre rather than a culture, which tells you everything about how persistent the misreading is. What started...
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