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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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Reggae and Dancehall Have Always Known How to Travel
Reggae came out of Jamaica in the late 1960s, grew from ska and rocksteady, and within a decade had made its way into virtually every corner of the...
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Afrobeats Did Not Just Cross Over. It Changed the Map.
Afrobeats is everywhere now, which is both obvious and worth sitting with for a moment. It is in the Beyonce catalogue, it is on pop radio, it has...
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Neo-Soul Never Actually Ended. It Just Stopped Waiting for Permission.
There is a story that gets told about neo-soul where it begins in the mid-1990s and ends sometime around 2006 when D’Angelo disappeared and nobody knew if he...
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Drill: The Chicago Sound That Rewired Global Rap
Drill started in Chicago around 2011 and 2012, in the South Side neighborhoods where Chief Keef and a loose network of teenage rappers were making music that sounded...
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Post-Rock: The Most Patient Music in the Room
Post-rock is a terrible name for a great idea. The genre label implies a departure from something, a genre that exists in the aftermath of rock, which makes...
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Noise Pop: The Sweetest Racket in Rock
Noise pop is not a contradiction in terms. It is a philosophy. Take the sweetest melodic instincts you have, the ones that want to write a hook you...
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Jangle Pop: The Sound of Bright Guitars That Never Really Went Away
Jangle pop is not a genre that announces itself. It arrives on a wave of chiming, open-tuned guitar, a melody that lifts slightly more than it needs to,...
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Funk: The Genre That Gave Music Its Hips
Funk is the genre that gave music its hips. Before funk, rhythm was something that supported the melody. After funk, rhythm was the point. The groove was not...
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Rock en Espanol Never Needed Your Permission to Exist
Maná just played Miami on their Vivir Sin Aire tour, and the crowd was enormous. This is not news in the sense that anything unexpected occurred. Maná filling...
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Post-Punk Never Needed a Comeback Because It Never Went Anywhere
Post-punk is one of the more misunderstood genre labels in rock history, partly because it describes a posture as much as a sound, and partly because the posture...