Willie Nelson is 92 years old. Bob Dylan is 84. This week, news broke that Nelson’s 156th – yes, one hundred and fifty-sixth – album includes a co-write...
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R&B has always been the genre most willing to say the difficult thing plainly. Where rock often reached for the mythological and hip-hop for the rhetorical, R&B has...
Electronic music has a genre problem, which is really a genre abundance. The taxonomy has proliferated to the point where genre tags function less as descriptions than as...
Hip-hop is 50 years old, depending on how you count, and is currently the most commercially dominant music genre on earth. It is also, by any serious measure,...
Every five years or so, someone writes the obituary for rock music. The numbers are usually cited – streaming share declining, rock radio formatting out, guitar-based acts underrepresented...
Two major Jay-Z announcements landed within days of each other this week, and together they paint a picture of an artist doing something relatively rare at his level:...
Saturday Night Live landed in the UK this week, and the producers made an excellent choice for the inaugural musical guest: Wet Leg, the Isle of Wight indie...