Curated playlist
Counterculture of the 2020s
- Jerk (music genre)Jerk is a hip-hop microgenre that grew up on the internet and took shape in New York City in the early 2020s. Writing for the British magazine The Face, music journalist Kieran Press-Reynolds described its sound as "fidgety rhythms,…
- HexDHexD is a style of electronic music built on one blunt idea: take a song and damage it on purpose until it sounds like a corrupted file. The name comes from a collective called Hexcastcrew, whose members described their work as casting…
- Internet rapInternet rap, also called online rap, began as hip-hop that traveled through the blogosphere in the late 2000s. The British magazine Dazed once said of Lil B, "he's the father of 'Internet rap' and probably follows you on Twitter". The…
- DigicoreDigicore is music that teenagers built in bedrooms and traded through Discord and SoundCloud.
- David LynchDavid Lynch began as a painter who just wanted his canvases to move. That wish led him to film.
- Rolling StoneRolling Stone magazine began in 1967 on $7,500 borrowed from family. Its first cover showed John Lennon in a helmet.
- Mad (magazine)Mad magazine once received a letter whose envelope carried no address and no name, only a drawing of a gap-toothed boy's face. The United States mail delivered it anyway. According to Mad writer Frank Jacobs, the face alone did the job.…
- VaporwaveVaporwave took its name from software that was announced and never shipped.
- HyperpopHyperpop began as a metadata tag added by a Spotify data analyst in 2018. Glenn McDonald's label later named a playlist.
- South ParkFox balked at a talking stool, and South Park's creators walked away from the deal.