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Deep dives into the sounds that define us.
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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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British Nu-Soul Is Thriving, and the Records Prove It
Something interesting has been happening in British soul and R&B for the better part of a decade, and it has been happening mostly without a convenient name to...
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Shoegaze Never Really Left. It Just Got Much, Much Bigger.
There is a tendency to treat shoegaze as a period piece: a genre that lived inside a specific window of British music history, made a few defining records...
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UK Drill Is Bigger Than Its Most Famous Face
The title of the article sitting in your algorithm right now probably says Central Cee. Or Pop Smoke. Or maybe it reaches back to Headie One. There is...
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Why Post-Punk Is Having Its Best Moment in Years
Post-punk is in one of its periodic golden moments, and if you have been paying any attention at all to the last few years of guitar-based music, you...
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TLC, Salt-N-Pepa, and En Vogue Are Touring Together and 90s R&B Deserves This
TLC, Salt-N-Pepa, and En Vogue are going on tour together this summer. Before we get into what that means culturally, appreciate what is being described here: three of...
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Screamo Never Died – It Just Moved to Where You Weren’t Looking
Screamo's mainstream moment made it easy to dismiss - but the actual underground never stopped, and what it's been doing is worth paying attention to.
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K-pop Is a Genre Only If You Squint: A Field Guide to the Most Systematized Music on Earth
K-pop isn't a genre - it's an industrial system that happens to produce music across every genre. Understanding the infrastructure helps explain why it took over the world.
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Indie Folk Is Not Going Anywhere – It Just Stopped Apologizing
Indie folk took a critical beating and mostly deserved it - but the backlash threw out the genuine craft with the imitations. Here's what the genre actually is when it's working.
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Hyperpop: The Genre That Ate Itself and Survived
Hyperpop turned pop music's artificiality into an aesthetic program - here's how it got here and why it's more emotionally honest than it looks.
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Dream Pop: The Genre That Never Needed Your Attention to Survive
Dream pop has been quietly making extraordinary music for 40 years without ever needing to be the center of attention. Here's where to start.