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...
Afrobeats did not ask permission to become one of the dominant sounds of global popular music. It just became that, gradually and then all at once, and the...
Dua Lipa is about to become one of the few pop stars who can claim a genuine acting career alongside a music one, and the gap between those...
Soul music has a problem with its own name. The word “soul” gets used to describe everything from sixties Atlantic Records gospel-influenced R&B to nineties neo-soul to whatever...
Wolf Alice are not a band that needs a television appearance to prove anything. Three albums in, a BRIT Award for Group of the Year still warm in...
Pop-punk has been declared dead so many times that the declarations have become their own genre. Every five years or so, someone publishes a piece about how the...
Ultra Music Festival returned to Bayfront Park in Miami this weekend, and by the time the second night wrapped on Saturday, March 28, it was clear this edition...
New wave arrived without a proper announcement and left without a clear ending. That is part of why it is still so difficult to pin down even now,...
Guns N’ Roses kicked off their 2026 world tour Saturday night in Monterrey, Mexico, and they did it properly. A 26-song set at Parque Fundidora during the Tecate...
Grunge arrived in mainstream consciousness with the force of something that had been building underground for years before anyone in Los Angeles noticed. Seattle in the late 1980s...
Benson Boone is heading back out on the road, and this time the scale is unmistakably serious. The singer announced the Wanted Man Tour on Sunday, a 39-date...
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