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...
Shoegaze was supposed to be a joke. The name came from music press critics in the early 1990s who thought it was funny that these bands stood at...
Bruce Springsteen showed up in Minneapolis on Saturday, and it was not a concert. It was a reckoning. Springsteen performed “Streets of Minneapolis” at the city’s No Kings...
Power pop has a branding problem. The name sounds like it should mean something louder and more aggressive than it does, which might be why it never achieved...
Ska is one of those genres that never entirely goes away and also never quite gets the sustained critical respect its influence deserves. It shows up in waves,...
Thirty years is a long time to wait. But Sublime, or at least the people still breathing who made Sublime what it was, announced this week that a...
Country music has never really been a single thing. It has always been an argument. Between tradition and change, between Nashville and everywhere else, between the people who...
Jack White is not in the habit of staying quiet when he thinks something has gone wrong. He proved that again this week when he addressed Donald Trump’s...
R&B is the most elastic genre name in popular music. It has covered territory from jump blues to doo-wop to soul to funk to quiet storm to contemporary...
Canada’s biggest night in music has arrived. The 55th Juno Awards are happening right now in Hamilton, Ontario, at the TD Coliseum, and the early results are painting...
Hyperpop started as a provocation and became a genre by accident, which is appropriate for a sound built on accidents being turned up too loud. The origin story...
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