Current Events
The sample clearance economy is having a moment
A run of interpolation-driven hits is exposing how uneven — and how lucrative — sample culture has become since the streaming era began.
Current events, artist profiles, genre histories, and the influences behind them — organized so the news and the backstory sit next to each other.
Current Events
A run of interpolation-driven hits is exposing how uneven — and how lucrative — sample culture has become since the streaming era began.
Current Events
Two promoters now book most of the country's mid-size festivals. Here's what that's done to ticket prices and to who gets a stage.
Music History
From Roland's discontinued drum machine to the low end under nearly every chart hit — tracing sixty years of one sound's spread.
Music History
A walking history of the rooms that broke acts in the 70s and 80s, and how the block has changed since.
Style & Influence
Global genres are no longer "crossing over" into the mainstream — they're setting its rhythm section outright.
Style & Influence
Pitch-warped production moved from internet-only microgenre to default setting in about five years. Here's the chain of influence.