Culture

K-pop has always been a genre in translation. Long before BTS stepped onto the AMA stage in 2017, The Kim Sisters were…

American hip-hop culture, 2000s–2010s: The genre evolved in phases: creative dominance shifted to the American South (OutKast, Cash Money/No Limit, “Dirty South”…

Sitting in a room with other people and playing a record front to back turned out to be more durable than a trend.

After years of designing for a thumbnail, artists are making covers that reward being looked at properly again.

When the room goes, the scene does not automatically follow. What matters is whether anyone organises the next thing.

For a lot of listeners, the only physical music they buy now is bought directly from the artist who made it.

Setlists, session details and out-of-print releases are being catalogued by volunteers with more rigour than most official efforts.