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Soul Music Was Invented to Say Things That Polite Society Was Not Ready to Hear
Soul music was invented to say things that polite society wasn’t ready to hear. That’s not a romantic origin story. It’s the actual mechanics of how a genre...
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Jack White Takes His Guitar to Europe This Summer, Eighteen Dates Across Twelve Countries
Jack White is heading to Europe this summer, and the itinerary he just announced is the kind that makes you pull out a map and start doing math...
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Shoegaze: The Genre That Named Itself After a Joke and Never Stopped Being Right
Shoegaze was never supposed to be a genre. The name was a joke, coined by a British music press that was annoyed at how intently the bands stared...
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Joni Mitchell Accepts Lifetime Achievement at the 2026 Junos and Makes Sure It Does Not Feel Like a Goodbye
Joni Mitchell has spent the better part of a decade making rare appearances, carefully choosing the moments when she lets the world back in. Sunday night at the...
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Americana: The Genre That Exists to House Everything That Does Not Fit
Americana is the genre that exists to house all the music that does not fit anywhere else, which makes it either the most generous category in popular music...
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The Killers Close Out Tecate Pal Norte 2026 and Remind Everyone What They Are
The Killers closed out night three of Tecate Pa’l Norte in Monterrey, Mexico on Sunday, March 29, and if the point of a festival headline slot is to...
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Garage Rock Has Always Sounded Like It Has Something to Prove
Garage rock has always been the part of rock music that refuses to clean up after itself. It is loud on purpose, rough on purpose, deliberately uninterested in...
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Kylie Minogue Is Coming Home to Headline the 2026 AFL Grand Final
Kylie Minogue is heading home. The AFL confirmed on Sunday that the Melbourne-born pop icon will headline the pre-game entertainment at the 2026 AFL Grand Final on September...
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Latin Pop: The Genre That Crossed Over and Never Looked Back
Latin pop has a problem that most genres would love to have. It is too big, too varied, and too successful to be contained in a single story....
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Niall Horan Has Been a Solo Artist for Ten Years and the Numbers Finally Say What He Already Knew
Niall Horan turned twenty when One Direction went on hiatus. Ten years later, he has something most of his former bandmates are still figuring out: a solo career...