She’s coming back like a boomerang? JoJo Siwa’s rebrand and what it means for queerness.
Karma's A B****, and we should have known better. If I had a wish, I would have never underestimated JoJo Siwa.
A tale of two Jasons: the best and worst of social commentary in music.
Two Southern musicians tackle the urban-rural divide…with wildly different results.
How to choose the perfect walkout song for your next MMA fight.
Your walkout song is the first punch you throw in every fight. If you don’t want to be caught lacking, check out this guide to choosing your perfect anthem.
Did anyone really win the Drake-Kendrick Lamar beef?
A rap war more than a decade in the making turns sour.
Reimagining tradition: Rosalía’s place in the history of flamenco.
Exploring the complex interplay of flamenco traditions in Rosalía’s multifaceted discography.
Reflections of the past as seen in folklore and evermore.
Exploring themes of nostalgia, resilience, and betrayal in Taylor Swift’s folklore and evermore.
Did Fantano gentrify industrial rap?
This and other questions raised by the internet’s busiest music cult.
Music in the Mediterranean: sonic echoes from shore to shore.
A dive in the Mediterranean Sea, its wrecks, and underwater tunes.
Deconstructing the groundbreaking hype around rage rap.
An exploration of the rise of rage rap, a subgenre of trap music characterized by buzzing synths and aggressive, confrontational vocals.
The Billboard Hot 100, Deconstructed
How Do We Talk About "Asian-American" Music?
Hyperpop: Why We Love To Hate To Love It
Whose Country? The Complicated Origins of Country Music, and Where It Might Be Headed
There’s been a lot of conversation about the increasing polarization in our politics, but country music is a case of how that applies across our culture—down to what we like to listen to.
Lisa from BLACKPINK is “Playing with Fire” in Recent Cultural Appropriation Scandal
Sugar, We’re Goin’ Inside: COVID-19 and the Pop Punk Revival
Pop punk’s sudden revivified presence in the mainstream is more than simply the cycle of generational nostalgia running its course; the recipe for its current resurgence has everything to do with COVID-19.
The Streaming Era: The Free Market of Music
The effects of the rise of streaming.