From street-corner harmonies to electronic drops, American music has seen waves of genres that dominated the airwaves, clubs, and cultural imagination, only to fade as quickly as they arrived. Some ...

Everybody loves the blues in some capacity. This genre of soulful music can be traced back to the 1860s in the Deep South. The origins of the blues started with African-American musicians who created ...

From rock to pop to experimental, genre fusion is breaking down the old walls that once kept musical styles apart. Today’s artists are mixing sounds from across cultures and eras, creating fresh, ...

A genre is a category of artistic, musical or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form or content. Music genres such as pop, country, rock and folk are used to categorize songs ...

Brian Marsella is a pianist and composer whose work defies easy categorization. Whether leading his genre-blurring trio with bassist Trevor Dunn and drummer Kenny Wollesen, or collaborating with avant ...

Call me cynical, bitter and close-minded, but electronic dance music defies the ideal of musicianship. It’s worth its salt in entertainment value, but show me a rave in which its participants admire ...

But the music never went public. Around 2023, the genre exploded when artists like Peso Pluma, Fuerza Regida and Natanael Cano began to mix the classic style with trap music in what are known as ...