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Pop-Punk: The Genre That Keeps Getting Eulogized and Keeps Not Dying
Pop-punk has been declared dead so many times that the declarations have become their own genre. Every five years or so, someone publishes a piece about how the...
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Ultra Music Festival 2026, Day Two: Swedish House Mafia Fragments, Carl Cox, and a Festival Finding Its Form
Ultra Music Festival returned to Bayfront Park in Miami this weekend, and by the time the second night wrapped on Saturday, March 28, it was clear this edition...
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New Wave: The Genre That Never Agreed on What It Was and Somehow Became the Blueprint for Everything That Followed
New wave arrived without a proper announcement and left without a clear ending. That is part of why it is still so difficult to pin down even now,...
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Guns N’ Roses Open 2026 World Tour in Monterrey With the Live Debut of Songs the Vaults Had Held for Decades
Guns N’ Roses kicked off their 2026 world tour Saturday night in Monterrey, Mexico, and they did it properly. A 26-song set at Parque Fundidora during the Tecate...
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Grunge Changed the Grammar of Rock and Never Asked for Credit
Grunge arrived in mainstream consciousness with the force of something that had been building underground for years before anyone in Los Angeles noticed. Seattle in the late 1980s...
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Benson Boone Announces the Wanted Man Tour, 39 Arenas This Summer
Benson Boone is heading back out on the road, and this time the scale is unmistakably serious. The singer announced the Wanted Man Tour on Sunday, a 39-date...
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Art Pop: The Genre That Never Agreed on What It Was and Kept Going Anyway
Art pop is the genre that music critics reach for when they want to describe something that refuses to fit anywhere else. It is also genuinely one of...
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Pussy Riot Takes Their Fight to Ubiquiti’s Front Door and the Response Says Everything
Pussy Riot walked into the Manhattan headquarters of Ubiquiti on Friday and did what they have always done: made noise in a place that preferred silence. The protest,...
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Synth-Pop: The Sound That Made the Machine Feel Human
Synth-pop arrived with the 1980s and never really left. It outlasted the decade it defined, shed several of its worst habits, kept the best ones, and quietly became...
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TLC Chilli Says She Is Not MAGA After Trump Donation Records Surface
TLC’s Chilli is in damage control mode this weekend, and the story behind it says a lot about where things stand in 2026. FEC records published by MeidasTouch...