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Ghosts in the Machine: The Radical Fluidity of Modern Jazz
Jazz has always been a genre of ghosts, but in 2026, those ghosts are being reanimated in some fascinating ways. From the mainstream success of artists like Laufey...
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The Desert Never Settles: Coachella’s Chaos and the New Pop Order
The desert winds might have tried to steal the show, but Coachella 2024 (and the impending 2025/2026 seasons) remains the ultimate litmus test for pop culture dominance. While...
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Industrial Music Was Always Too Honest for Mass Consumption. Nine Inch Noize Might Change That.
Industrial music has always had a problem with the mainstream, or rather the mainstream has had a problem with industrial music, and for a long time everyone seemed...
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Afrika Bambaataa, Hip-Hop’s Founding Architect, Is Dead at 68
Afrika Bambaataa died on April 9, 2026, at 68 years old, from complications related to prostate cancer. The announcement came quietly, and the music world spent the following...
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Footwork: The Genre That Invented Itself for a Room and Then Escaped
Footwork did not ask to be discovered. It emerged from Chicago’s South Side in the late 1990s as an evolution of ghetto house, built for battle: two dancers...
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The Rolling Stones Are Back, and This Time They Called Themselves the Cockroaches
The Cockroaches are back. If you know your Rolling Stones lore, that sentence lands differently than it would for most bands. The Cockroaches was the name the Stones...
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Indie Pop Is Having Its Moment Again, and Here’s Why It Always Comes Back
There’s been a quiet but unmistakable shift happening in pop music. Call it the return of the low-key. After years of maximalism, hyperpop production, and the relentless sonic...
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Olivia Rodrigo Announces Third Album, Due June 12
The words appeared overnight on a pink wall on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles: “you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love.” By morning, the internet...
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Jazz Fusion: The Genre That Got Away With Everything
Jazz fusion is the genre that got away with everything. It took jazz’s harmonic language, rock’s volume and rhythmic aggression, funk’s groove, and in some iterations, electronic music’s...
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Pepsi and Diageo Pull Out of Wireless Festival Over Kanye West Booking
Pepsi has pulled its presenting sponsorship from London’s Wireless Festival, and Diageo, the drinks conglomerate behind Johnnie Walker and Captain Morgan, quickly followed. The cause: the booking of...