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

Rock music has evolved in countless directions since the genre's emergence in the '50s and '60s—whether that's heavy metal icons like Metallica and Black Sabbath, new wave bands such as The Police and ...

Someone has to be the first to do everything. Though the origin of a movement can be hard to pinpoint, there are tentpole figures we can point to for a pretty good picture of how it develops. Music is ...

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 ...