Editorial
Styles
Discover focused sounds, scenes, and techniques through the artists and records that brought them to life.
How emo kept changing shape
From Rites of Spring to Midwest basements, platinum albums and the revival: the artists behind every wave of emo.
How ska left Kingston and travelled the world
From Jamaican sound systems to English 2 Tone, California ska punk and bands in Buenos Aires, Tokyo and Brasília.
Art Blakey's Hard Bop School and Its Graduates
How the Jazz Messengers and Horace Silver's quintet trained Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson and Wynton Marsalis.
Lo-fi: records made at home
From mail-order cassettes to Pavement and Rio's Baixada Fluminense: the story of lo-fi and where to find those records on vinyl and CD.
Soul from Detroit and Memphis to Rio, Kingston and London
Motown, Stax, Black Brazilian dance culture, rocksteady, Northern Soul and neo-soul in one connected history.
Pop Rock: you already know the chorus
Familiar songs, new favourites. Explore pop rock artists and records from seven regions.
Country: a history of musical exchange
The artists, scenes and conflicts that shaped country and continue to redraw its boundaries.
MPB on festival stages
Elis, Gil, Chico, Caetano and Vandré on the TV stages that changed Brazilian song.
Alternative Rock at Lollapalooza, 1991
One festival bill brought rap, industrial music, post-punk and guitar bands into the same field.
Psychedelic rock
From the late 1960s to today: psychedelic rock in Brazil, Peru, Zambia, Turkey, Japan and beyond.
Gothic Rock: bands, scenes, and records
From Bauhaus to the Sisters of Mercy, meet the artists and records that shaped goth rock.
What does indie rock actually mean?
It began as a way to make and move records. Then it became a sound broad enough to argue about.
House music: from the Warehouse to EDM
How artists and clubs carried a Chicago dance floor from the Warehouse into records heard around the world.
Synth-pop vinyl and CDs: artists and albums
Meet the artists and albums that defined synth-pop, then compare vinyl and CD editions.
K-pop: the album as an object of desire
From Seo Taiji to the collectible album: six shifts linking music, image, fandom and the staying power of physical editions.
How punk became a network
Artists in Detroit, New York, London, Brisbane, Washington and beyond kept changing what punk could sound like and how it could circulate.
The bands that kept thrash metal moving
Four decades of thrash, from the first club and tape networks to the renewed contact with hardcore.
A map of Delta blues, from Dockery to Chicago
The places and artists that shaped the blues in Mississippi and carried the music to Memphis, Chicago and Detroit.