Footwork: The Genre That Invented Itself for a Room and Then Escaped
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...
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...
Art pop is a genre label that functions less as a description of a specific sound and more as a permission slip. It says: this music is doing...
ZAYN has announced The KONNAKOL Tour, his largest solo tour to date, running from May 12 in Manchester through November 20 in Miami. The tour supports KONNAKOL, his...
Irish folk and singer-songwriter music has a particular global reach that’s hard to explain purely in terms of the music itself. The tradition runs deep, from the ballad...
Apple Music and Spotify both launched new AI-related features today, and together they represent the most concrete industry response yet to the question everyone has been avoiding: how...
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...