Sonic Taxonomy
Katy Perry’s Campy, Gay-Baiting Polka-Dot Pop Was First Cooed By ’80s New Waver Josie Cotton
Icona Pop’s Nightclubbing Catharsis Originated With ’90s British Dance-Pop Duo Crush
How No Age’s Cagy Art-Punk Aspires to the Transcendent Negation of the Urinals’ Four-Song Blurt ‘Another EP’
How Mayer Hawthorne’s Retro-Soul Takes Its Cues From Robert Palmer’s Eccentric ‘Clues’
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band Birthed Queens of the Stone Age’s Stoner-Robot Rock
Not Daft, Occasionally Punk: 8 Essentials of French Modern Rock’s Secret History
Blame the Knack: 8 Essentials of the Fake New Wave Feeding Frenzy
Silver Connections: 8 Essentials of Eurodisco
Superrappin’: 8 Essential Oldest-School Rap Albums
Misty Mountain Pop: 8 Essentials of British Folk Rock
Kleeer Channel: Unsung R&B Bands of the 1980s
M/A/R/R/S Attacks!: 8 Essentials of Plunderphonic House
Designed to Kill: 8 Essentials of ZE Records
Bring It On: 8 Essential Teen-Pop Soundtracks
Czech Your Head: 8 Essentials of Slav Rock
We Are Also the Robots: 8 Essentials of Post-Kraftwerk Pop
Aussie in Effect: 8 Essentials of Oz Rock
Barbie World: 8 Essentials of ’90s Eurocheese
Crust Never Sleeps: 8 Anarcho Punk Essentials
K-pop
Ambient
Women of Metal
Island Records: 8 Essential Kiwi Pop Albums
8 Essential Wall of Sound Albums
Cowpunk
House Music
Industrial Metal
Dub
Big Beat
The SPIN Record Guide: Essential Goth
Punk Funk
