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R&B Is Not a Genre. It Is a Tradition.
R&B is not a genre. It is a container that has held completely different things at different points in American music history, and calling it a genre is...
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Bob Dylan Launched a Patreon and Nobody Should Be Surprised
Bob Dylan launched a Patreon on March 29, 2026. This is not a drill. The man who once famously went electric to the horror of folk purists, who...
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Hip-Hop: The Genre That Rewrote Everything Else
Hip-hop began on a block party turntable in the South Bronx in the summer of 1973 and became, over the following fifty years, the most globally dominant musical...
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DJ Dan, Architect of West Coast House Music, Has Died
DJ Dan, the San Francisco-born house music producer and DJ who spent three decades helping shape the sound of West Coast electronic music, has died. Billboard confirmed the...
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Heavy Metal: The Genre That Has Been Dying for Fifty Years and Has Never Once Stopped
Heavy metal is the genre that everyone has an opinion about and almost nobody can define precisely. Ask ten metal fans what counts as metal and you will...
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311 and Dirty Heads Are Co-Headlining North America This Summer and the Package Makes Perfect Sense
311 and Dirty Heads are taking their summer co-headlining North American tour out in 2026, and on paper this is one of the more logically satisfying pairings of...
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Jazz Has Never Stopped. The Rest of Music Is Starting to Notice.
Jazz has a marketing problem that it has had for decades and mostly does not care about. The genre resists the simplifications that make things easy to explain...
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Thomas Bangalter Joined Fred again.. at Alexandra Palace and Nobody Saw It Coming
Thomas Bangalter did not need to be there. Since Daft Punk dissolved in 2021, the half of the duo who was never actually the shy one has made...
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Ska-Punk Never Actually Left, and the Sublime Return Proves It
Sublime just announced their first album in thirty years, and ska-punk is suddenly a topic again. Until the Sun Explodes comes out June 12 via Atlantic, with Jakob...
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Bruce Springsteen Performs Streets of Minneapolis at No Kings Rally in St. Paul
Bruce Springsteen took the stage in St. Paul, Minnesota on Saturday to perform “Streets of Minneapolis” at the flagship No Kings rally outside the Minnesota State Capitol, drawing...