Music has a funny way of rising from the ashes when everyone least expects it. Every few years, critics and industry insiders declare another genre obsolete, finished, or simply irrelevant. Yet time ...

A genre is a category of artistic, musical or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form or content. Music genres such as pop, country, rock and folk are used to categorize songs ...

It might have been easy back in the fifties—you had your ‘usual’ set of musical genres, from classical and jazz (with few sub-genres there) to easy listening, folk, and its then few variants (blues ...

The purpose of a musical genre is to give listeners an expectation of what they are about to take in. Local musician Annie Thoma of the band Killed by Kiwis provided an artist’s perspective on the way ...

When musicians fight to break into the music scene, one of the first things they can do is establish their music genres. Over time, there are some musicians who want to switch things up or find that ...

JACOB BEARDSLEY: I don't want to be genre-phobic. That's why I'm listening to every single music genre. Today's genre is... MARTÍNEZ: That's right. Beardsley is trying to listen to every single music ...

Considering how music genres can be quite blurry nowadays, a lot of award shows nominate material in what many might consider unexpected categories. Let's take a look at some Grammy genre submissions ...

Like the ravenous vultures they truly have become, music journalists are always eager to swoop in on unfamiliar sounds and declare them new genres. Some of their discoveries this year were legitimate ...