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...
Art pop is the genre that music critics reach for when they want to describe something that refuses to fit anywhere else. It is also genuinely one of...
Pussy Riot walked into the Manhattan headquarters of Ubiquiti on Friday and did what they have always done: made noise in a place that preferred silence. The protest,...
Synth-pop arrived with the 1980s and never really left. It outlasted the decade it defined, shed several of its worst habits, kept the best ones, and quietly became...
TLC’s Chilli is in damage control mode this weekend, and the story behind it says a lot about where things stand in 2026. FEC records published by MeidasTouch...
Emo is one of those genres that people have been eulogizing since roughly the moment it became visible, which suggests either that it keeps dying or that it...
Lily Allen has announced a North American arena tour, her first in years, and the reaction has been the usual mixture of genuine excitement and that particular internet...
Indie folk is a genre that nobody wants to name and everybody is willing to inhabit. Ask someone who makes it whether they play indie folk and they...
Wu-Tang Clan has announced their farewell tour, and the name alone tells you everything you need to know: Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chamber Tour. All nine surviving original...
Dream pop is one of those genre names that does too much explaining and not enough describing. It tells you the mood, roughly, and it tells you the...
Jack White is heading back to Europe this summer, and this time the run looks serious. Eighteen dates. Latvia to Croatia. Festival stages and theater rooms. Kicks off...
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