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Emo Was Never Just a Phase. It Was a Language.
Emo is one of those genres that people have been eulogizing since roughly the moment it became visible, which suggests either that it keeps dying or that it...
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Lily Allen Announces North American Arena Tour and Nobody Should Underestimate This
Lily Allen has announced a North American arena tour, her first in years, and the reaction has been the usual mixture of genuine excitement and that particular internet...
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Indie Folk: The Genre Nobody Wants to Name and Nobody Can Stop Making
Indie folk is a genre that nobody wants to name and everybody is willing to inhabit. Ask someone who makes it whether they play indie folk and they...
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Wu-Tang Clan Announces Farewell Tour and Every Member Who Matters Is Going
Wu-Tang Clan has announced their farewell tour, and the name alone tells you everything you need to know: Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chamber Tour. All nine surviving original...
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Dream Pop: The Genre That Sounds Like Memory
Dream pop is one of those genre names that does too much explaining and not enough describing. It tells you the mood, roughly, and it tells you the...
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Jack White Takes His Show Back to Europe This Summer With an 18-Date Run
Jack White is heading back to Europe this summer, and this time the run looks serious. Eighteen dates. Latvia to Croatia. Festival stages and theater rooms. Kicks off...
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Shoegaze Never Actually Stopped. It Just Went Somewhere Quieter.
Shoegaze was supposed to be a joke. The name came from music press critics in the early 1990s who thought it was funny that these bands stood at...
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Bruce Springsteen Performed at the Minneapolis No Kings Protest and Said Two Names the Government Would Rather You Forget
Bruce Springsteen showed up in Minneapolis on Saturday, and it was not a concert. It was a reckoning. Springsteen performed “Streets of Minneapolis” at the city’s No Kings...
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Power Pop: The Genre That Was Always Too Good for Its Own Good
Power pop has a branding problem. The name sounds like it should mean something louder and more aggressive than it does, which might be why it never achieved...
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Ska Has Been Around for Sixty-Five Years and It Still Does Not Get Enough Credit
Ska is one of those genres that never entirely goes away and also never quite gets the sustained critical respect its influence deserves. It shows up in waves,...