Curated playlist
1990s in music
- House musicFrankie Knuckles began splicing records because the music ran out before dancers wanted to stop.
- Nu metalThree nu metal albums came out on August 18, 1998. Billboard later called it the "Biggest Day in Nu-Metal History".
- Punk rockDetroit band Death couldn't get a record deal because of its name. They issued one single in 1976, then disbanded.
- Gangsta rapGangsta rap first went by a different name: reality rap. Schoolly D and Ice-T said they described a world they knew.
- Rap metalIn 1987, Anthrax became one of the earliest bands to deliberately mix hip hop and heavy metal.
- EmoAt Rites of Spring shows in the mid-1980s, audience members sometimes wept.
- Contemporary R&BIn 2004, all twelve Billboard Hot 100 number-one songs came from African-American artists.
- Mashup (music)Harry Nilsson's 1967 Beatles "cover" was not a cover at all. One guitar chord fit many Beatles songs.
- Electronic dance musicGhost production means a hired producer makes a track that a DJ releases under their own name.
- Country musicThe steel guitar in country music traces back to Hawaii, not Appalachia. Country's sound was a braid of many traditions.
- J-popJapan once argued over whether rock music could be sung in Japanese. The band Happy End proved it could.