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Drum and Bass: The Genre That Built Its Own Physics
Drum and bass did not ask for permission to exist. It did not arrive with a theory or a manifesto. It emerged out of London’s rave underground in...
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King Tuff Returns to Tape With Moo, Announces Spring Tour
King Tuff is back to basics, and the timing couldn’t be better. On March 27, Kyle Thomas dropped Moo, his seventh album under the King Tuff name, through...
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Disco: The Genre That Was Never Bad, Just Inconvenient for the People Who Hated It
Disco has been easy to dismiss since before it ended. The Disco Demolition Night in Chicago in 1979, when a crate of disco records was blown up on...
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Army Helicopters Flew Over Kid Rock\s House. The Investigation That Followed Says More Than the Video Did.
Two U.S. Army Apache attack helicopters flew low over Kid Rock’s house in Whites Creek, Tennessee last weekend, circling the property four times before departing. Kid Rock posted...
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Indie Pop: The Genre That Never Agreed to Be One Thing and Never Stopped Being Right About That
Indie pop has always had an identity problem, and that is entirely the point. The genre that defined itself by refusing definition has spent four decades proving that...
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Musicians Sign Petition Demanding Closure of Texas ICE Detention Center
A petition demanding the immediate closure of the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas landed this week with names attached that nobody in the music industry can ignore....
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Post-Rock: The Genre That Builds to the Part Words Could Never Reach
Post-rock doesn’t have a verse-chorus-bridge. It doesn’t have hooks in the traditional sense. It rarely has lyrics, and when it does, they tend to be treated more as...
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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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Billy Joel’s 100th MSG Concert Is Coming to Blu-ray and It Includes Everything the TV Broadcast Cut
Billy Joel’s record-breaking 100th Madison Square Garden residency show is finally getting the home video treatment it deserves. A full Blu-ray and DVD release of the landmark March...
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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...