If you’ve been scrolling through playlists lately, you might have noticed something odd. The old genre walls are crumbling. What used to be neatly labeled sections on streaming platforms now blur ...

Music has a funny way of rising from the ashes when everyone least expects it. Every few years, critics and industry insiders ...

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 ...

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 ...

The purpose of a musical genre is to give listeners an expectation of what they are about to take in. Local musician Annie Thoma of the band Killed by Kiwis provided an artist’s perspective on the way ...

It was an era where musical genres and defiance merged into the distinct sound of a decade, not simply a genre. In the 90’s, ...

These early iterations of now-famous genres are considered one of the first songs of their respective genres to exist.

The Grammy-winning artist's new album 'Dreamsicle' releases May 9 Marina Watts is a Digital Writer, Music at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously appeared on ...