Into The Music
Genres
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: The Genre That Exported a Worldview and Changed the Bass Line Forever
Reggae is one of the few genres that managed to export an entire worldview alongside its music. Other styles travel in sound. Reggae traveled in sound, philosophy, spirituality,...
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Neo-Soul: The Genre That Trusted Feeling Over Formula
Neo-soul came into the world with a borrowed name and ended up building one of the most influential sounds of the last thirty years. The term was coined...
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Metal: The Genre That Refuses to Apologize for Going Too Far
Metal has a gatekeeping problem that it refuses to solve, and that refusal is actually part of what makes the genre interesting. No other style of music argues...
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UK Garage: The Genre That Built the Future of British Music and Then Stepped Back
UK garage arrived in the mid-1990s without permission and refused to leave. It borrowed the skeleton of American house and R&B, rebuilt it with British swing, compressed it...
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Dream Pop: The Genre That Sounds Like a Feeling and Refuses to Apologize for It
Dream pop does not announce itself. It arrives the way that certain feelings do, as an ambient pressure, a gradual shift in light rather than a sudden intrusion....
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Jazz: The Genre That Has Always Known Music Is a Conversation
Jazz is one of the few genres in popular music that has successfully convinced people it requires a special kind of listening. That reputation has done it both...
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House Music: How a Chicago Dancefloor Built One of the Most Durable Sounds in the World
House music was born in a specific time and place, Chicago in the early 1980s, in the clubs that formed after disco’s commercial collapse left a hole in...
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Country Music: The Genre That Has Been Arguing About Itself for a Century and Cannot Stop
Country music has been having an identity crisis for so long that the crisis has become the identity. The debates about what qualifies as country, who belongs in...
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Soul: The Genre That Always Meant What It Said
Soul music does not need a definition. It needs a listen. Put on Aretha Franklin’s “I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You” from 1967, or...
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Hip-Hop: The Genre That Rewired Popular Music and Still Has Not Stopped
Hip-hop is fifty years old and still being described as a genre rather than a culture, which tells you everything about how persistent the misreading is. What started...