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...
Garage rock has always been the part of rock music that refuses to clean up after itself. It is loud on purpose, rough on purpose, deliberately uninterested in...
Kylie Minogue is heading home. The AFL confirmed on Sunday that the Melbourne-born pop icon will headline the pre-game entertainment at the 2026 AFL Grand Final on September...
Latin pop has a problem that most genres would love to have. It is too big, too varied, and too successful to be contained in a single story....
Niall Horan turned twenty when One Direction went on hiatus. Ten years later, he has something most of his former bandmates are still figuring out: a solo career...
R&B is not a genre. It is a container that has held completely different things at different points in American music history, and calling it a genre is...
Bob Dylan launched a Patreon on March 29, 2026. This is not a drill. The man who once famously went electric to the horror of folk purists, who...
Hip-hop began on a block party turntable in the South Bronx in the summer of 1973 and became, over the following fifty years, the most globally dominant musical...
DJ Dan, the San Francisco-born house music producer and DJ who spent three decades helping shape the sound of West Coast electronic music, has died. Billboard confirmed the...
Heavy metal is the genre that everyone has an opinion about and almost nobody can define precisely. Ask ten metal fans what counts as metal and you will...
311 and Dirty Heads are taking their summer co-headlining North American tour out in 2026, and on paper this is one of the more logically satisfying pairings of...