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Kanye West Finally Drops Bully and the Music World Braces for the Argument
Kanye West has been promising Bully for the better part of two years. He announced it in September 2024, pushed the release date multiple times, plastered billboards across...
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Drill: The Chicago Sound That Rewired Global Rap
Drill started in Chicago around 2011 and 2012, in the South Side neighborhoods where Chief Keef and a loose network of teenage rappers were making music that sounded...
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Arch Enemy Debuts New Singer Lauren Hart in Beijing and It Clicks
There is always a question that follows a band through a lineup change: can they actually pull it off live? For Arch Enemy, a band whose reputation was...
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Post-Rock: The Most Patient Music in the Room
Post-rock is a terrible name for a great idea. The genre label implies a departure from something, a genre that exists in the aftermath of rock, which makes...
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Bruce Springsteen Brings Streets of Minneapolis to the No Kings Rally in St. Paul
Bruce Springsteen took the stage Saturday in St. Paul, Minnesota to perform his protest song “Streets of Minneapolis” at the No Kings flagship rally outside the Minnesota State...
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Noise Pop: The Sweetest Racket in Rock
Noise pop is not a contradiction in terms. It is a philosophy. Take the sweetest melodic instincts you have, the ones that want to write a hook you...
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Bloc Party Unveils New Music at BBC 6 Music Festival and a Different Kind of Record Is Taking Shape
Bloc Party played the BBC 6 Music Festival in Manchester on March 27, and if you were there, you heard three songs that do not exist on any...
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Jangle Pop: The Sound of Bright Guitars That Never Really Went Away
Jangle pop is not a genre that announces itself. It arrives on a wave of chiming, open-tuned guitar, a melody that lifts slightly more than it needs to,...
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Music Takes the Streets as London Rallies Against the Far Right
London flooded its streets on Saturday for what organizers are calling the largest demonstration against the far right in British history, and music was front and center. The...
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Funk: The Genre That Gave Music Its Hips
Funk is the genre that gave music its hips. Before funk, rhythm was something that supported the melody. After funk, rhythm was the point. The groove was not...