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The Current State of R&B: Emotionally Honest in a World That Keeps Asking Artists to Be Otherwise
R&B has always been the genre most willing to say the difficult thing plainly. Where rock often reached for the mythological and hip-hop for the rhetorical, R&B has...
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Electronic Music’s New Weird: From Hyperpop to Ambient, the Genre Refuses to Settle
Electronic music has a genre problem, which is really a genre abundance. The taxonomy has proliferated to the point where genre tags function less as descriptions than as...
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Hip-Hop in 2026: The Genre That Contains Multitudes Is Still Expanding
Hip-hop is 50 years old, depending on how you count, and is currently the most commercially dominant music genre on earth. It is also, by any serious measure,...
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In the House That Rock Built: Why Guitar Music Keeps Finding New Exits
Every five years or so, someone writes the obituary for rock music. The numbers are usually cited – streaming share declining, rock radio formatting out, guitar-based acts underrepresented...
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Jay-Z Is Having a 2026 Moment: Roots Picnic, Yankee Stadium, and Two Albums Worth Celebrating
Two major Jay-Z announcements landed within days of each other this week, and together they paint a picture of an artist doing something relatively rare at his level:...
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Wet Leg Just Opened SNL UK and Honestly, Who Better?
Saturday Night Live landed in the UK this week, and the producers made an excellent choice for the inaugural musical guest: Wet Leg, the Isle of Wight indie...
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Neurosis Dropped a Surprise Album After 10 Years of Silence
No announcement. No lead single. No press campaign. Just Neurosis, a surprise-released album, and a statement that reads like it was written at 3am after a long, hard...
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Lorde Walked Away From Universal Music – and She Sounds Relieved About It
In a series of voice memos sent directly to her fans this week, Lorde announced something that would send most artists into a cold sweat: she’s now a...
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BTS Are Back and the World Noticed: Arirang Lands with a Seoul Concert That Broke Records
You knew this was coming. After two years of mandatory military service scattered across seven men, BTS made their full-group return this week in a way that only...
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Screamo Never Died – It Just Moved to Where You Weren’t Looking
Screamo's mainstream moment made it easy to dismiss - but the actual underground never stopped, and what it's been doing is worth paying attention to.