Once upon a time, there was a female modern pop singer in her mid-twenties from California whose debut single questioned whether her boyfriend was gay.
In the Grammy-nominated 64-page booklet that housed L.A. noise-pop-punk-gaze duo No Age's first full album, 2008's Nouns, pages 12 and 13 were devoted to somebody's…
Everybody's always called Queens of the Stone Age "stoner rock," which you'd think would imply throwback turn-of-the-'70s acid-boogola in some sense. Truth is, they haven't…
The typical American exceptionalist stance has long argued that French people have no business trying to rock or roll. And evidence in that truism's favor…
As disco first evolved in the U.S., it was largely R&B-based music, carrying over Motown and Philly International assembly-line slickness, gospel ecstasy, Southern soul grit,…
No one knows exactly when rap started. Maestros like Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash imported sound-system basics to the Bronx from the Caribbean through the…
The British folk-rock boom that began in the late 1960s, in retrospect, was inevitable. You'd had American folksingers and roots bands, starting with Dylan, going…
Like a lot of things during that weird pre-Nirvana window when disposable cassettes were retailers' favorite format, a prevalent turn-of-the-'90s prediction about our sonic future…
As rock'n'roll spread across the planet through the 1960s, rematerializing further and further from its origins in the American South, odds increased that its geographically…
