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...
Outlaw country was always a correction more than a genre. By the early 1970s, Nashville’s commercial machine had developed such rigid production standards, the lush orchestration and polished...
Guns N’ Roses launched their 2026 world tour at the Tecate Pa’l Norte festival in Monterrey, Mexico on March 28, and debuted two new songs, “Nothin'” and “Atlas,”...
Post-hardcore emerged from the mid-1980s as the hardcore punk scene started fracturing into artists who wanted to keep the intensity but expand the vocabulary. The Minutemen were doing...
Converge have announced their second album of 2026. Hum of Hurt is due June 5 via Epitaph, and they shared the title track today. The album follows Love...
Shoegaze has one of the stranger histories in rock music, partly because the name itself was always an insult that got rehabilitated into a badge. The term was...
Six years is a long time in any life. In Céline Dion’s, those six years contained a diagnosis that would have broken most people, a pandemic that erased...
Sunn O))) releases their self-titled album on April 3, which gives a useful entry point for thinking about drone and ambient metal, the corner of music where the...
Eric Clapton has confirmed the return of the Crossroads Guitar Festival for 2026, scheduled for September 26 and 27 in Austin, Texas. The event, a fundraiser for Clapton’s...
Earl Sweatshirt and MIKE are releasing a joint double album called POMPEII // UTILITY on April 3, in collaboration with the production collective SURF GANG. It’s a 33-track...
Neo-soul is a term that was always a bit awkward, invented by critics to describe music that didn’t quite fit the categories available at the time. It showed...
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