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...
Dream pop has always had a problem with its name. The genre label suggests something passive, something you let wash over you while you drift toward sleep. The...
Bruce Springsteen did not have to show up. His tour starts tomorrow. He could have saved his voice, kept his head down, focused on the business of selling...
Willie Nelson just announced the 2026 Outlaw Music Festival Tour, with Wilco, Sheryl Crow, and The Avett Brothers joining him on the road. This is a good moment...
Benson Boone is coming to an arena near you this summer, and the scale of this thing is hard to ignore. The singer has announced the “Wanted Man...
Blackgaze starts with a contradiction and never resolves it. On one side: black metal, the harshest, most deliberately hostile form of heavy music, a genre that spent decades...
MIKE, Earl Sweatshirt, and New York production collective Surf Gang have announced a 33-track double album called POMPEII // UTILITY, set for release on April 3. A worldwide...
Post-punk arrived because punk had already answered its own question. By 1978 it was clear that three chords and speed were a statement, not a method. The bands...
Guns N’ Roses opened their 2026 world tour Saturday night in Monterrey, Mexico, and made it count. Playing to a packed crowd at Parque Fundidora as the headliner...
Funk is the genre that figured out the space between the notes before everyone else did. While rock was stacking power chords and pop was chasing the hook,...
Two of rock’s most enduring acts are sharing stages this spring, and the pairing is stranger and better than it has any right to be. ZZ Top and...
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