Industrial music has always had a problem with the mainstream, or rather the mainstream has had a problem with industrial music, and for a long time everyone seemed...
Afrika Bambaataa died on April 9, 2026, at 68 years old, from complications related to prostate cancer. The announcement came quietly, and the music world spent the following...
On February 27, Thomas Bangalter made only his second live solo appearance since Daft Punk split in 2021, and he did it the same way he made his...
Grime did not announce itself. It arrived in the early 2000s out of East London, out of pirate radio and estate-block living rooms, out of a moment when...
CHVRCHES had not played a live show together in almost three years. When they took the stage at the Royal Albert Hall on March 27 as part of...
Shoegaze was not supposed to have a second act. The genre peaked in the early 1990s, burned bright, got swallowed by Britpop’s sharper edges and American grunge’s commercial...
Hayley Williams stepped onto a stage in her own name and the room changed. Not dramatically, not with fireworks, but with the particular quiet that falls when a...
Americana is a genre that has never quite agreed on what it is, and that instability is a feature, not a bug. It emerged as a formal category...
Ross “The Boss” Friedman, the guitarist who helped invent American hard rock twice over, died on Friday. He was 72. His death was confirmed by former bandmates and...
Ska-punk has always had a branding problem. The name conjures a specific image: horns over distorted guitars, fast tempos, a singer in cargo shorts delivering what feels like...
Sublime are back. Not Sublime With Rome, not some tribute band working the festival circuit on nostalgia alone, but the actual surviving members of one of the most...
Trip-hop is the genre name that nobody in the genre particularly wanted. Massive Attack resisted it. Portishead mostly ignored it. Tricky rejected it outright and spent the rest...
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