Music has a funny way of rising from the ashes when everyone least expects it. Every few years, critics and industry insiders ...

If you’ve been scrolling through playlists lately, you might have noticed something odd. The old genre walls are crumbling.

Everybody loves the blues in some capacity. This genre of soulful music can be traced back to the 1860s in the Deep South. The origins of the blues started with African-American musicians who created ...

Music and the frequencies we listen to tend to have a powerful impact on our emotions and mental state. And it’s not only research that proves this. You may have probably experienced the power of ...

The Grammy-winning artist's new album 'Dreamsicle' releases May 9 Marina Watts is a Digital Writer, Music at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously appeared on ...

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 ...

If you were a fan of noise or ambient house music in the 2010s, you probably had a few witch house songs in your rotation. Witch house is a microgenre of electronic music that is known for a few key ...

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 ...