Jazz fusion is the genre that got away with everything. It took jazz’s harmonic language, rock’s volume and rhythmic aggression, funk’s groove, and in some iterations, electronic music’s...
Pepsi has pulled its presenting sponsorship from London’s Wireless Festival, and Diageo, the drinks conglomerate behind Johnnie Walker and Captain Morgan, quickly followed. The cause: the booking of...
Appalachian music doesn’t get discussed as a genre in the same way that, say, outlaw country or alternative country does, partly because it predates the genre taxonomy that...
Luke Grimes’ sophomore album Redbird is out April 3, produced by Dave Cobb at Georgia May Studio in Savannah and RCA Studio A in Nashville. The Yellowstone actor...
Country music has always had a complicated relationship with its women. The commercial structure of Nashville radio has historically favored male artists in ways that are documented and...
Suki Waterhouse released “Back in Love” on March 27, her first single on Island Records after signing with the label in 2025. It’s the opening move of whatever...
Pop-punk is a genre name that has meant different things in different decades, which is either a sign of its vitality or its incoherence, depending on your relationship...
Dillinger Four released “Don’t Happy Be Worry” today, their first new music since 2008. The Minneapolis punk band has been playing shows and writing material for years without...
Synth-pop is the music of the instrument that changed everything: the synthesizer, which arrived in mainstream pop in the 1970s and rewired the relationship between technology and music...
An AI-generated musician called Eddie Dalton has hit the iTunes Top 10 in multiple countries with three songs, including “Another Day Old,” which has over 500,000 Spotify streams....
Hard rock and heavy metal share a boundary that’s always been porous, and the distinction matters less to most listeners than it does to the critics and historians...
AC/DC’s Power Up North American stadium tour kicks off July 11 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and runs through September 29 in Philadelphia across 18 stadium dates. The run...
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