Music criticism has a complicated relationship with the new. When a genre arrives with unfamiliar sounds, strange social ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists ...

If you were a fan of noise or ambient house music in the 2010s, you probably had a few witch house songs in your rotation. Witch house is a microgenre of electronic music that is known for a few key ...

What makes a music genre truly popular is more layered than it seems. Is it the number of times a song gets streamed on a lazy Sunday afternoon? The way it dominates charts across continents? Or maybe ...

Whether you’re listening to Patti Smith’s cover of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” or versions of Jethro Tull’s “Locomotive Breath,” it’s not all that uncommon to hear fiddle, especially in later versions ...

Do you know what deep orgcore sounds like? How about doomcore, deep Christmas, atmospheric post metal, vegan straight edge, Polynesian pop or Swedish reggae? All of these musical genres are thriving ...

On Friday, Bob Dylan will wrap up the Americanarama Festival of Music, his six-week U.S. tour alongside an all-star cast of colleagues, including Wilco, My Morning Jacket and Ryan Bingham. All those ...