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Genres
Deep dives into the sounds that define us.
Genres
The Post-Genre Collision: Music in 2026
The term “post-genre” has been thrown around for years, but in 2026, it has finally become the literal reality of the music industry. We are no longer living...
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Shoegaze Never Actually Stopped. It Just Went Somewhere Quieter.
Shoegaze was supposed to be a joke. The name came from music press critics in the early 1990s who thought it was funny that these bands stood at...
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Power Pop: The Genre That Was Always Too Good for Its Own Good
Power pop has a branding problem. The name sounds like it should mean something louder and more aggressive than it does, which might be why it never achieved...
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Ska Has Been Around for Sixty-Five Years and It Still Does Not Get Enough Credit
Ska is one of those genres that never entirely goes away and also never quite gets the sustained critical respect its influence deserves. It shows up in waves,...
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Country Music Is at War With Itself. That Is Why It Is So Interesting Right Now.
Country music has never really been a single thing. It has always been an argument. Between tradition and change, between Nashville and everywhere else, between the people who...
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R&B: The Genre That Rewrote Everything and Kept Going
R&B is the most elastic genre name in popular music. It has covered territory from jump blues to doo-wop to soul to funk to quiet storm to contemporary...
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Hyperpop: The Genre That Never Agreed to Be a Genre
Hyperpop started as a provocation and became a genre by accident, which is appropriate for a sound built on accidents being turned up too loud. The origin story...
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Jazz Is Not Dying. It Is Mutating.
Jazz has been dying for as long as anyone can remember, which is one way of saying it has not died. The more precise way of saying it...
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Ambient Music: The Genre That Asks Nothing of You
Ambient music has a paradox at its center: it is the most demanding genre disguised as the most passive one. Brian Eno, who more or less named and...
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UK Garage: The Sound That Built London and Refuses to Stay Buried
UK garage is one of the rare genres where you can trace a direct and unbroken line from a specific scene, in specific clubs, in a specific city,...
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New Wave: The Genre That Refused to Explain Itself
New wave is one of those genre labels that has been used to describe so many different things it should have collapsed under its own contradictions decades ago....