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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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Festival Pop: Not a Sound, a Size
The major music festival exists at the intersection of commerce, culture, and something that feels like community but is also, fundamentally, a lot of people standing in a...
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Art Pop: The Genre That Gives Itself Permission
Art pop is a genre label that functions less as a description of a specific sound and more as a permission slip. It says: this music is doing...
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Irish Folk: Why a Small Island’s Music Travels So Far
Irish folk and singer-songwriter music has a particular global reach that’s hard to explain purely in terms of the music itself. The tradition runs deep, from the ballad...
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Outlaw Country: The Correction That Became a Genre
Outlaw country was always a correction more than a genre. By the early 1970s, Nashville’s commercial machine had developed such rigid production standards, the lush orchestration and polished...
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Post-Hardcore: The Genre That Refused to Stay in Its Lane
Post-hardcore emerged from the mid-1980s as the hardcore punk scene started fracturing into artists who wanted to keep the intensity but expand the vocabulary. The Minutemen were doing...
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Shoegaze: The Genre That Turned Guitar Pedals Into Weather Systems
Shoegaze has one of the stranger histories in rock music, partly because the name itself was always an insult that got rehabilitated into a badge. The term was...
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Drone Metal: The Genre Where the Riff Slows Down Until Time Stops
Sunn O))) releases their self-titled album on April 3, which gives a useful entry point for thinking about drone and ambient metal, the corner of music where the...
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Neo-Soul: The Genre That Wasn’t Supposed to Have a Name
Neo-soul is a term that was always a bit awkward, invented by critics to describe music that didn’t quite fit the categories available at the time. It showed...
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Drill Music: How Chicago’s Most Dangerous Sound Conquered the World
Drill music was born in Chicago’s South Side around 2011 and 2012, and the name came before the fame. “Drill” was already street slang in that neighborhood for...
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Cloud Rap Never Died. It Just Got Absorbed.
Cloud rap didn’t die. It just became invisible to people who weren’t paying close enough attention. The genre had its peak visibility window somewhere between 2011 and 2016,...