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Blackgaze: The Genre That Refused to Choose Between Extremity and Tenderness
Blackgaze starts with a contradiction and never resolves it. On one side: black metal, the harshest, most deliberately hostile form of heavy music, a genre that spent decades...
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MIKE, Earl Sweatshirt, and Surf Gang Announce Double Album POMPEII // UTILITY
MIKE, Earl Sweatshirt, and New York production collective Surf Gang have announced a 33-track double album called POMPEII // UTILITY, set for release on April 3. A worldwide...
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Post-Punk: The Genre That Refused to Inherit Rock Music
Post-punk arrived because punk had already answered its own question. By 1978 it was clear that three chords and speed were a statement, not a method. The bands...
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Guns N Roses Open 2026 World Tour in Mexico With Live Debuts of Vault Tracks
Guns N’ Roses opened their 2026 world tour Saturday night in Monterrey, Mexico, and made it count. Playing to a packed crowd at Parque Fundidora as the headliner...
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Funk: The Genre That Taught Everyone Else How to Move
Funk is the genre that figured out the space between the notes before everyone else did. While rock was stacking power chords and pop was chasing the hook,...
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ZZ Top and Dwight Yoakam Hit the Road Together, and the Dos Amigos Tour Is Better Than It Sounds
Two of rock’s most enduring acts are sharing stages this spring, and the pairing is stranger and better than it has any right to be. ZZ Top and...
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Synth-Pop: The Genre That Made Machines Sound Like Feelings
Synth-pop is one of those genres that is always being declared over and always showing up somewhere new. The form is simple enough to be portable: synthesizers as...
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TLC’s Chilli Says She Is Not MAGA After Trump Donation Report and Michelle Obama Repost
TLC’s Chilli spent the weekend explaining herself. The singer, born Rozonda Thomas, found herself at the center of two separate controversies after The Independent reported that she had...
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Punk: The Sound That Refuses the Definition
Punk is not a single thing. It never was. The people who insist on a strict definition, some variant of three chords, 1977, the Clash and the Pistols...
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BTS Arirang Breaks First-Week Group Sales Record in More Than a Decade
Six years is a long time in pop music. Long enough for whole careers to emerge and collapse, for entire genres to shift, for the industry to rearrange...