Curated category
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 musicHouse music was born in the dark of Chicago's underground club scene, somewhere between a disco record and a drum machine.
- DigicoreDigicore is a genre of music that took shape entirely online. Teenagers built it from bedrooms, trading tracks through Discord servers and SoundCloud…
- Cloud rapCloud rap began with a castle in the clouds. In 2009, rapper Lil B sat down with music writer Noz for an interview. He pulled up a CGI image of a castle…
- CrunkcoreCrunkcore arrived in the mid-2000s as one of the stranger collisions in popular music. A microgenre known by at least four names - crunkcore, crunk punk…
- Jerkin'Jerkin' is a street dance culture and hip hop subgenre that rose from urban California in the late 2000s. The music sounded new.
- Gangsta rapGangsta rap began its life under a different name: reality rap. That original label tells you something honest about what the genre's founders believed they…
- EmoEmo is a genre of rock music that began as a small, passionate subculture in Washington, D.C., and grew into one of the defining sounds of the early…
- VaporwaveVaporwave arrived on the Internet in the early 2010s as something that resisted easy description. Was it music? An art movement?
- Contemporary R&BContemporary R&B has roots in the African-American musical communities of the 1970s, and it has never stopped moving. It began as a fusion of 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 rockIndie rock began its life as a legal description, not a sound. On the 15th of January 1983, a Billboard magazine writer named Roman Kozak published an…
- Mashup (music)A mashup takes two or more already-recorded songs and blends them into something new. It usually means stitching one track's vocals onto another track's…
- Electronic dance musicElectronic dance music, known the world over simply as EDM, began in the nightclubs and warehouses of the late twentieth century and grew into a global…
- Country musicCountry music got its name in an unlikely way. For decades, the genre was called hillbilly music, and only in the 1940s did the term "country music" catch on.
- J-popJ-pop, the abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music", entered the mainstream of Japan in the 1990s, but the story behind it stretches back more than a…