Footwork: The Genre That Invented Itself for a Room and Then Escaped
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...
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...
Matt Krupanski, the founding drummer of Delaware post-hardcore band BoySetsFire, died on Saturday, March 29. He was 51. No cause of death has been given. The band broke...
New Wave is a genre that has always meant more than it should be able to. That is a feature, not a bug. Born out of punk’s energy...
Alternative rock has always been a strange category. It started as a genuine descriptor, music that existed outside the mainstream rock infrastructure, and became the mainstream so thoroughly...
Duffy has not been in the room for a long time. After her debut album Rockferry made her one of the most talked-about voices in British music, she...
Indie rock is one of those terms that long ago stopped describing a sound and started describing an attitude. When it emerged in the early 1980s, the word...
Las Vegas has seen plenty of firsts, but this one lands differently. Lisa, the Thai rapper and singer who spent years as one quarter of BLACKPINK before launching...
Progressive rock made ambition the point. At a moment in the late 1960s when the rest of rock music was compressing itself into tighter and tighter pop formats,...
Bob Dylan has launched a Patreon. If that sentence reads like a punchline, you are not alone. The man who spent decades dodging autographs, performing in shadows, and...
Psychedelic rock did not begin with drugs. It began with a question: what happens when you stop treating a song as a vehicle for the verse-chorus structure and...
Scott Mills presented the BBC Radio 2 breakfast show for just over a year. His last broadcast was March 24, 2026. By March 30, the BBC confirmed he...