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...
Synth-pop is one of those genres that is always being declared over and always showing up somewhere new. The form is simple enough to be portable: synthesizers as...
TLC’s Chilli spent the weekend explaining herself. The singer, born Rozonda Thomas, found herself at the center of two separate controversies after The Independent reported that she had...
Punk is not a single thing. It never was. The people who insist on a strict definition, some variant of three chords, 1977, the Clash and the Pistols...
Six years is a long time in pop music. Long enough for whole careers to emerge and collapse, for entire genres to shift, for the industry to rearrange...
Soul music was invented to say things that polite society wasn’t ready to hear. That’s not a romantic origin story. It’s the actual mechanics of how a genre...
Jack White is heading to Europe this summer, and the itinerary he just announced is the kind that makes you pull out a map and start doing math...
Shoegaze was never supposed to be a genre. The name was a joke, coined by a British music press that was annoyed at how intently the bands stared...
Joni Mitchell has spent the better part of a decade making rare appearances, carefully choosing the moments when she lets the world back in. Sunday night at the...
Americana is the genre that exists to house all the music that does not fit anywhere else, which makes it either the most generous category in popular music...
The Killers closed out night three of Tecate Pa’l Norte in Monterrey, Mexico on Sunday, March 29, and if the point of a festival headline slot is to...
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