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2010s in music
- HexDIn 2011, Untranced released a mixtape titled Deleted Seniors. This project featured EDM music mixed with heavy bitcrushing.
- Rage (music genre)The word rage first appeared in hip-hop through Kid Cudi's Mr. Rager alter ego during the 2010s. Travis Scott later adopted this term and made it a core part…
- Internet rapIn 1997, Canibus dropped the track DJ Clue Freestyle and declared he would battle opponents on the net as well as in the flesh.
- House musicIn 1977, a dimly lit basement club named the Warehouse opened its doors on South Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Frankie Knuckles stood behind the turntables…
- DigicoreThe word digicore first appeared in the 2000s as a shorthand for digital hardcore, a distinct electronic music style from that era.
- Cloud rapIn 2010, music blogger Walker Chambliss wrote a blog post that introduced the phrase cloud rap to describe the work of Squadda B.
- CrunkcoreThe mid-2000s marked a collision of sounds that would define a new musical identity. Members of the scene subculture began blending crunk, post-hardcore, and…
- Jerkin'In the late 2000s, a street dance culture emerged from urban California that would eventually be called Jerkin'. Oktane of Audio Push explained the roots of…
- Gangsta rapPhiladelphia rapper Schoolly D released a self-titled debut album in 1985 that contained the song "P.S.K. What Does It Mean?" This track is widely regarded…
- EmoIn 1983, a band called Rites of Spring formed in Washington, D.C., playing music that sounded like hardcore punk but felt different.
- VaporwaveIn August 2010, a cassette tape titled Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 appeared on the internet under the name Daniel Lopatin.
- Contemporary R&BIn 1973, Marvin Gaye released the album What's Going On. This record introduced jazz influences that loosened the rigid structures of earlier rhythm and…
- HyperpopIn 2013, A. G. Cook launched the record label and art collective known as PC Music in London. This small group of artists laid the groundwork for what would…
- Indie rockThe term indie rock first appeared in print on the 15th of January 1983. Roman Kozak wrote an article for Billboard magazine titled Despite Hard Times, Indie…
- Mashup (music)Harry Nilsson sat in a studio during 1967 and struck a single chord on his guitar. He realized that chord could support more than one song at once.
- Electronic dance musicIn 1973, a Jamaican-American DJ named Kool Herc introduced large bass-heavy speaker rigs to the Bronx. His parties kick-started the New York City hip-hop…
- Country musicIn the early 1920s, a young fiddler named Henry Gilliland stood in a small studio in Bristol, Tennessee. He held his instrument tight as he prepared to…
- J-popIn 1958, forty-five thousand people crammed into the Nichigeki Western Carnival to see Japanese singers perform rockabilly music.