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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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Power Pop Has Always Known Something the Rest of Rock Forgot
Power pop is the genre that never sounds like what its name implies. The “power” part suggests something heavier than it usually is, and the “pop” part suggests...
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Afrobeats Went Global on Its Own Terms. Here Is How.
Something shifted in how the world thinks about Afrobeats sometime around 2019 or 2020, and the shift has only accelerated since. The genre went from being a niche...
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Bedroom Pop Was Always Bigger Than Its Name Suggested
Bedroom pop was never supposed to last this long. It arrived as an aesthetic of necessity: young artists with laptops and cheap microphones making music in their actual...
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K-Pop After BTS: What the Genre Became While the World Was Looking Away
K-pop stopped being a niche genre a long time ago. The moment when it crossed into genuine global mainstream consciousness is usually marked as 2019 or 2020, when...
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Dub Techno Has Been Waiting Thirty Years. It Is Still Right.
Dub techno is not a genre that announces itself. It does not have a mascot, a defining festival, or a moment you can point to and say: this...
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The Americana Revival Has a Different Sound This Time
Americana has always resisted easy definition. It is not country, exactly, though country runs through it. It is not folk, though folk is in the bones. It is...
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Post-Metal: The Genre That Lives Between Crush and Collapse
Post-metal is a genre that takes its name from where it starts, not where it ends up. The “post” in the label is doing a lot of work....
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How Reggaeton Became Everyone’s Genre Without Asking Permission
Reggaeton spent about a decade being dismissed, ignored, or condescended to by the English-language music press. Then, quietly, it became inescapable. Then, less quietly, it became one of...
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Ska-Punk’s Third Wave Is Coming Back Around
Sublime announcing their first album in thirty years is, among other things, a reminder of how strange ska-punk’s place in music history actually is. The genre had one...
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Synth-Pop Never Left. It Just Stopped Announcing Itself.
When Vince Clarke, Neil Arthur, and Benge announced their Doublespeak project this week, the coverage framed it as a reunion of sorts, veterans of the British synth-pop era...