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The December roundup of our punk column ‘In Defense of the Genre’ includes recent news, reviews, and features, along with a ...

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It was the best of hip-hop times. It was the worst of hip-hop times. Ha! 2025 was a rollercoaster of rap music’s highs and lows. The duality was so real. I can’t recall a year with such a wide array ...

Pop punk and emo bands like Gym Class Heroes, Motion City Soundtrack, and Cartel took over in 2005. Now, they're back and ...

The Aces returned to glory, Kendrick Lamar amazed at Allegiant, the Arts District went off ... and that’s just the beginning ...

A gifted Queens rapper (Lexa Gates), a noisy British band (Maruja), a Drake-approved emo songwriter (Julia Wolf), a lo-fi ...

Our list of the 20 best U.K. and Ireland albums of 2025 includes Sam Fender, PinkPantheress and more artists who elevated British and Irish music.

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From the thrills and spills of Lily Allen’s ‘divorce album’ to dazzling pop debuts, introspective UK rap and country romps, ...

TopOppGen in “Petty $hit,” directed by AkilsPOV. Graphic by Chris Panicker. Nowadays, I look back on it all as a cautionary tale of how fast things go south when ...

It's time to dispel some myths about Midwest emo and I want to be the person who does it. If there was ever a "scene" that I was part of, it was the Midwest emo scene of the late 1990s. There wasn't ...