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...
Synth-pop is the music of the instrument that changed everything: the synthesizer, which arrived in mainstream pop in the 1970s and rewired the relationship between technology and music...
An AI-generated musician called Eddie Dalton has hit the iTunes Top 10 in multiple countries with three songs, including “Another Day Old,” which has over 500,000 Spotify streams....
Hard rock and heavy metal share a boundary that’s always been porous, and the distinction matters less to most listeners than it does to the critics and historians...
AC/DC’s Power Up North American stadium tour kicks off July 11 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and runs through September 29 in Philadelphia across 18 stadium dates. The run...
Funk is the genre that built half of modern music and gets thanked for it about a quarter of the time. Sample a James Brown break and you...
Kneecap dropped the title track from their upcoming album today, and it is not shy about what it is. “Fenian,” released April 1st, is the lead single from...
Folk-pop as a commercial category arrived with a particular moment: the early 2000s, when artists like Norah Jones, Damien Rice, and the Iron and Wine of the early...
Warner Music Group announced today it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Revelator, an independent B2B music platform that handles digital distribution, rights management, royalty accounting, and...
The major music festival exists at the intersection of commerce, culture, and something that feels like community but is also, fundamentally, a lot of people standing in a...
Lollapalooza Chicago announced its 2026 lineup back on March 17, and the conversation about it hasn’t stopped. The festival runs July 30 through August 2 in Grant Park,...
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