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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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Ambient Music Finally Found Its Audience. The Genre Was Never Really Waiting.
Ambient music has spent most of its existence as a genre being politely ignored by the parts of the music industry that count streams and chart positions. That...
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Hyperpop Was Never Just a Phase. Look at What It Left Behind.
There was never a clean origin point. Hyperpop arrived less like a genre announcement and more like a gradual recognition that several overlapping experiments were pointing at the...
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Post-Punk: The Genre That Refused to Explain Itself
Post-punk is the genre that refused to explain itself. Born out of the ashes of punk’s initial explosion in the late 1970s, it took the energy and confrontational...
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Drum and Bass: The Genre That Never Stopped, Just Waited for Everyone to Catch Up
Drum and bass is one of those genres that gets credited with everything it influenced and almost never credited with being exactly what it is. It spawned dubstep,...
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Afrobeats Is Not a Trend. It Never Was.
Tems performed “What You Need” on The Tonight Show Thursday night, another data point in an ongoing story about Afrobeats and where it lives now. She stood in...
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Shoegaze: The Genre That Made Disappearing Into Sound Into an Art Form
Shoegaze is named for a posture. The musicians stare at their feet, watching the effects pedals rather than the audience, heads down, faces hidden. For a genre built...
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How Afrobeats Took Over the World
At the 2025 Grammy Awards, Tems won Best African Music Performance for “Love Me JeJe.” Two weeks earlier, Burna Boy had sold out Madison Square Garden for the...
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K-Pop Goes Vegas: What Lisa’s Residency Booking Says About Where the Genre Has Arrived
When Blackpink’s Lisa books a Las Vegas residency and becomes the first K-pop artist to do so, that’s not just a business milestone. It’s a signal that the...
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Indie Rock in 2026: What It Is Now That the Label Doesn’t Mean What It Did
Indie rock in 2026 is not what it was in 2006, which is either a statement of the obvious or a more complicated observation depending on how you’re...
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House Music: Where It Came From and Why It Matters Who Tells the Story
House music’s origin story is one of the more specific in popular music history. Chicago, early 1980s, the Warehouse club on South Jefferson Street, DJ Frankie Knuckles playing...