The Dowsers
  • Genres
    • Indie
    • Electronic
    • Hip-Hop
    • Jazz + Blues
    • RnB
    • World, Reggae + Latin
    • Pop
    • Classical
    • Rock + Alternative
  • Eras
    • ’60s
    • ’70s
    • ’80s
    • ’90s
    • ’10s
    • ’00s
  • Features
  • Artists
    • Essentials
    • Influences
    • Covers
    • Artist-Curated Playlists
    • B-Sides + Guest Spots
    • Behind the Boards
  • Top New Music
    • Staff Mixes
    • Trusted Sources
The Dowsers
  • Genres
    • Indie
    • Electronic
    • Hip-Hop
    • Jazz + Blues
    • RnB
    • World, Reggae + Latin
    • Pop
    • Classical
    • Rock + Alternative
    Kiwi jr.’s Playlist
    June 22, 2020
    Diet Cig’s Stuck Inside Playlist
    June 17, 2020
    Tri Angle: The END (2010 – 2020)
    June 16, 2020
    Indie Rock Face-Off: Neo vs. ’90s
    March 4, 2020
    Indie Bedroom Jams
    February 14, 2020
    The U.K.’s Most Unlikely Top 40 Hits
    September 17, 2019
    The New New New Post-Punk
    September 12, 2019
    R.I.P. David Berman
    August 9, 2019
    The Greatest One-Person-Band Albums
    August 1, 2019
    Fond Farewells: 26 Posthumous Gems
    July 1, 2019
    Tri Angle: The END (2010 – 2020)
    June 16, 2020
    Children of Kraftwerk
    May 8, 2020
    A Warm Bath for Your Soul
    March 31, 2020
    The 40 Best Electronic Tracks of 2019
    December 27, 2019
    Rituals of Mine’s Playlist: Cryin’ in Public
    October 7, 2019
    Turning Jewels Into Water’s Playlist: Beats and Rituals
    September 24, 2019
    50 Songs in 5 Minutes
    September 20, 2019
    The Greatest One-Person-Band Albums
    August 1, 2019
    The Top 50 Electronic Tracks of 2018
    January 5, 2019
    How Germany Won at Synth Pop
    October 31, 2018
    The Unawarded: Beloved Artists Who’ve Never Won a Grammy
    February 7, 2020
    Your Music Horoscope: Sagittarius Season
    December 2, 2019
    Don’t Bore Us, Get to the Chorus
    October 8, 2019
    Isaac Hayes Sampled: 50 Years of ‘Hot Buttered Soul’
    September 30, 2019
    Your Music Horoscope: Virgo Season
    September 6, 2019
    The OGs of Emo-Rap
    August 22, 2019
    Your Music Horoscope: Leo Season
    August 2, 2019
    Your Music Horoscope: Cancer Season
    July 9, 2019
    Fond Farewells: 26 Posthumous Gems
    July 1, 2019
    The Top 50 Hip-Hop Tracks of 2018
    January 5, 2019
    The Sound of Liberation: Free Jazz Jams for Independence Day
    July 5, 2020
    The Other Sides of Little Richard
    May 11, 2020
    A Warm Bath for Your Soul
    March 31, 2020
    Lady Plays the Blues: Killer Female Blues Guitarists
    March 26, 2020
    Haruki Murakami’s Vinyl Collection
    November 26, 2018
    Erik Deutsch’s Hammers, Strings, Stops & Knobs
    September 14, 2018
    Kamasi Washington, Bob Dylan, and the Idea of Gateway Artists
    June 30, 2018
    How Pharoah Sanders Captured the Promise and Chaos of Revolution
    May 11, 2018
    Astral Traveling: The Ecstasy of Spiritual Jazz
    April 19, 2018
    Kamasi Washington and The Politics of Culture in Trump’s America
    April 15, 2018
    Prince: A Guide to the Indie Years
    November 6, 2019
    Don’t Bore Us, Get to the Chorus
    October 8, 2019
    Isaac Hayes Sampled: 50 Years of ‘Hot Buttered Soul’
    September 30, 2019
    Off the Wall: Great Quincy Jones Productions from the ’70s and ’80s
    August 14, 2019
    Your Music Horoscope: Leo Season
    August 2, 2019
    Your Music Horoscope: Cancer Season
    July 9, 2019
    National Treasure: Tina’s Best Vocal Performances
    July 10, 2018
    Echoes: The Impact of Michelle Branch’s “Everywhere”
    July 10, 2018
    Janelle Monàe and the Promise of a New America
    April 30, 2018
    Prince’s Sign O’ The Times: Unpacked
    March 24, 2018
    Caipirinha Time: Cool Brazilian Sounds for Summer
    July 20, 2020
    How Los Prisioneros’ ‘Corazones’ Became an Electropop Manifesto
    July 1, 2020
    Fusion Beats by De’Anza
    July 13, 2018
    For “Winnie”: Anti-Apartheid Songs of Protest
    February 21, 2018
    David Byrne Presents: The Beautiful Shitholes Playlist
    February 14, 2018
    Khruangbin’s South Goa Beach Playlist
    January 11, 2018
    Welcome to Psych 101
    December 12, 2017
    The Best Bossa Nova
    July 27, 2017
    The Ultimate Guide to Latin Alternative Music
    July 23, 2017
    The Best Syrian Music
    June 15, 2017
    50 (Mostly) Splendid Years of Sparks
    July 17, 2020
    Kiwi jr.’s Playlist
    June 22, 2020
    Androgyny at Its Best
    June 4, 2020
    The Other Sides of Little Richard
    May 11, 2020
    Children of Kraftwerk
    May 8, 2020
    Pitchfork’s Recommended if You Like Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia Playlist
    May 6, 2020
    The Beatles’ Influence on Modern Pop
    April 20, 2020
    Tame Impala’s Road to The Slow Rush
    February 26, 2020
    The Most Significant Soundtrack Songs of the Last Decade
    February 12, 2020
    The Unawarded: Beloved Artists Who’ve Never Won a Grammy
    February 7, 2020
    Maya Beiser: Music for the Day After
    February 17, 2018
    A Tribute to Jóhann Jóhannsson
    February 16, 2018
    The 20 Greatest Conductors of All Time
    July 30, 2017
    Aziz Ansari’s Master of None Season Two Soundtrack
    May 27, 2017
    Beethoven: The Essence of Change
    November 23, 2016
    HighSchoolMixtape: How I Got Into Classical Music
    August 5, 2016
    Nine Inch Nails’ Most Devastating Dirges
    April 13, 2020
    70 for Tom Waits at 70
    December 6, 2019
    Under the Radar Magazine’s Slept On #1
    November 4, 2019
    Unplugged & Immortal: The Best Live Acoustic Performances
    November 1, 2019
    Happy Samhain: Ringing In the Dark Half of the Year
    October 31, 2019
    Don’t Bore Us, Get to the Chorus
    October 8, 2019
    50 Songs in 5 Minutes
    September 20, 2019
    Other Tongue: Songs Sung in Fake Languages
    September 5, 2019
    R.I.P. David Berman
    August 9, 2019
    The Greatest One-Person-Band Albums
    August 1, 2019
  • Eras
    • ’60s
    • ’70s
    • ’80s
    • ’90s
    • ’10s
    • ’00s
    Classics You Didn’t Know Were Covers
    June 19, 2020
    The Pleasure Seekers
    The Original Riot Grrrls: Rock’s First All-Female Bands
    March 30, 2020
    The Roots of Prog-Metal: 1969-1977
    September 27, 2019
    Doors of Perception: The Songs That Introduced the World to Psychedelics
    August 18, 2018
    The Influence of The Lizard King: Great Artists Who Loved the Doors Madly
    July 29, 2018
    The Dark Dreams of The Doors, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud
    July 29, 2018
    Echoes: The Impact of “Break on Through (to the Other Side)”
    July 10, 2018
    It Ain’t Me: The Best of Creedence Clearwater Revival
    July 1, 2018
    How Pharoah Sanders Captured the Promise and Chaos of Revolution
    May 11, 2018
    The Most Punk Proto-Punk
    February 28, 2018
    Classics You Didn’t Know Were Covers
    June 19, 2020
    The Roots of Prog-Metal: 1969-1977
    September 27, 2019
    Off the Wall: Great Quincy Jones Productions from the ’70s and ’80s
    August 14, 2019
    Last Night a Disco Compilation Saved My Life: A Chat with Bill Brewster
    September 10, 2018
    Sylvester’s Mighty Realness
    September 5, 2018
    Studs, Synths, and Liberation: A Brief History of SF Disco
    August 30, 2018
    Revolution, With Bongos: The Indie Disco Explosion
    August 24, 2018
    Echoes: Foreigner, “Juke Box Hero”
    August 18, 2018
    The Foreigner Strut: Mick Jones and Lou Gramm’s Sweet Science of Swagger
    August 18, 2018
    David Bowie’s Rockin’ Ronson Years
    July 10, 2018
    The Eternal Coolness of ’80s Coming-of-Age-Movie Music
    July 10, 2020
    Classics You Didn’t Know Were Covers
    June 19, 2020
    Off the Wall: Great Quincy Jones Productions from the ’70s and ’80s
    August 14, 2019
    Pitchfork’s 200 Best Albums of the 1980s
    October 15, 2018
    Sometimes They Won’t Let You: Tina Turner and Other Genre-Benders
    August 20, 2018
    Why Tina Turner’s “The Best” Is The Perfect Workplace Soundtrack
    August 20, 2018
    Obscene Bass: Revisiting Miami’s Invasion of White Suburbia
    January 7, 2018
    Questlove’s Top 50 Hip-Hop Songs of All Time
    November 27, 2017
    '80s Psychedelia
    Psychedelia in the ’80s
    May 22, 2017
    The Best Michael Jackson Songs of All Time
    May 8, 2017
    1995: The Year Alternative Peaked
    April 16, 2020
    The Year in ’90s Metal
    December 11, 2019
    Unplugged & Immortal: The Best Live Acoustic Performances
    November 1, 2019
    Out of the Stacks: ’90s College Radio Staples Still At It
    October 4, 2019
    Was 1993 the Greatest Year in Music?
    November 26, 2018
    Concrete and Snare Drums: DJ Premier’s 25 Best Beats
    April 11, 2018
    ’90s Alt-Pop Revisited
    March 6, 2018
    The Best Britpop Deep Cuts and Forgotten Faves
    February 22, 2018
    Lin-Manuel Miranda and Anil Dash Teach You a Thing About New Jack Swing
    January 10, 2018
    Questlove’s Top 50 Hip-Hop Songs of All Time
    November 27, 2017
    The Most Significant Soundtrack Songs of the Last Decade
    February 12, 2020
    2010s: How The Swedes Dominated Another Decade
    December 20, 2019
    The Best 10 Hours of Music from 2018 (So Far)
    June 22, 2018
    Janelle Monàe and the Promise of a New America
    April 30, 2018
    Is It Time to Boycott KANYE?
    April 26, 2018
    The Chillwave Effect
    March 8, 2018
    The Definitive Guide to Modern Rap for Old-School Hip-Hop Heads
    February 1, 2018
    Sharon Jones and the Daptonization of Modern Pop
    November 20, 2017
    The Legacy of Burial’s Untrue
    August 29, 2017
    Alt-Country Women You Need to Know
    August 15, 2017
    Echoes: The Impact of Michelle Branch’s “Everywhere”
    July 10, 2018
    The Chillwave Effect
    March 8, 2018
    Blog Rock Revisited
    March 1, 2018
    Electroclash Forever
    February 20, 2018
    Whatever Happened to My (Early 2000s) Rock ‘n’ Roll?
    January 11, 2018
    How the L.A. Beat Scene Changed Modern Music
    October 31, 2017
    New York Still Cares: Interpol’s Turn on the Bright Lights Turns 15
    August 14, 2017
    The Feminist Guide to Trap Music
    August 13, 2017
    How LCD Soundsystem’s Sound of Silver Became the Gold Standard for Modern Dance-Punk
    July 24, 2017
    Why Linkin Park Were So Much More Than a Nu-Metal Band
    July 21, 2017
  • Features
  • Artists
    • Essentials
    • Influences
    • Covers
    • Artist-Curated Playlists
    • B-Sides + Guest Spots
    • Behind the Boards
    70 for Tom Waits at 70
    December 6, 2019
    National Treasure: Tina’s Best Vocal Performances
    July 10, 2018
    Bob Dylan’s 20 Best Songs About the Apocalypse
    May 24, 2018
    Unholy Sacrament: The Best of Deerhunter
    May 23, 2018
    Four Tet’s Top 50 Remixes, and How They Provide a Key to Understanding His Music
    March 19, 2018
    Why Nicolas Jaar is This Generation’s Most Important Electronic Musician
    March 4, 2018
    Future & Zaytoven: Just Like Bruddas
    February 11, 2018
    Kanye Goes South
    February 7, 2018
    The Campaign to Save Migos’ Culture II
    January 31, 2018
    The Sunny Side of Mark E. Smith
    January 24, 2018
    Children of Kraftwerk
    May 8, 2020
    Before & After Radiohead’s OK Computer
    May 21, 2018
    The Go! Team’s Technicolor Pep Rally
    January 17, 2018
    Todd Hyman of Carpark Records’ 1990s Soundtrack
    January 16, 2018
    Thom Yorke’s Favorite Songs
    December 1, 2017
    Tyler, the Creator’s Odd Influences
    November 30, 2017
    200 Songs That Explain Frank Ocean
    November 25, 2017
    Petty Persuasion
    October 9, 2017
    The Best Steely Dan Samples
    September 4, 2017
    A$AP Mob’s Favorite Records
    August 22, 2017
    Phish’s Coolest Covers
    August 28, 2017
    Ted Leo’s Best Covers
    July 25, 2017
    Jeremih Hits
    10 Big Hits Jeremih Has Recently Remade
    September 25, 2016
    Yo La Tengo’s Covered
    August 22, 2015
    Feeling Good, A Dozen Ways
    June 19, 2015
    The Bobby Lees’ Alive Playlist
    August 5, 2020
    Rafael Anton Irisarri’s East of the River Hudson Playlist
    June 26, 2020
    Kiwi jr.’s Playlist
    June 22, 2020
    Konradsen’s Playlist
    May 13, 2020
    Lettuce’s Top 21 Favorite Quincy Jones Songs
    April 22, 2020
    Chris Maxwell’s Playlist
    April 6, 2020
    Windy & Carl’s The Post-Rave Comedown Playlist
    March 24, 2020
    Poguetry’s Playlist
    March 3, 2020
    Forever’s Playlist
    March 2, 2020
    Loving’s Playlist
    February 19, 2020
    The Agony and Ecstasy Of Loving Nas
    June 24, 2018
    Chance the Rapper’s 30 Best Guest Verses
    April 11, 2018
    JAY Z Is Choosing His Streaming Service Over His Legacy—And That’s Wrong
    June 28, 2017
    R. Kelly Remixes Himself
    April 10, 2017
    Vince Staples Collaborations: Anybody’s Killer
    December 25, 2016
    The Art of Robert Glasper
    November 22, 2016
    captain beefheart
    Captain Beefheart Insanity
    November 20, 2016
    Going Dutch: Kendrick Lamar’s Best Guest Verses
    November 13, 2016
    Meek Mill
    The Best of Meek Mill’s Dreamchasers Mixtapes
    November 6, 2016
    Verbal Assassin: Best Nas Guest Verses
    October 25, 2016
    Dan Auerbach: Life Beyond The Black Keys
    June 2, 2017
    Behind the Scenes: Jack Antonoff
    May 18, 2017
    Metro Boomin’s Greatest Hits
    May 11, 2017
    Hot Chocolate: Damu The Fudgemunk’s Premier Productions
    April 11, 2017
    Mike WiLL Made-It’s Next Phase
    April 6, 2017
    Behind The Scenes: Butch Walker
    August 21, 2016
  • Top New Music
    • Staff Mixes
    • Trusted Sources
    Welcome Back: 2020’s Returning Class
    August 3, 2020
    I Wish I Was a Spy: A Bond Movie Music Spectacular
    July 31, 2020
    Sly and the Family Stone: They Still Want to Take You Higher
    July 27, 2020
    Caipirinha Time: Cool Brazilian Sounds for Summer
    July 20, 2020
    50 (Mostly) Splendid Years of Sparks
    July 17, 2020
    The Eternal Coolness of ’80s Coming-of-Age-Movie Music
    July 10, 2020
    The Versatility of Ennio Morricone
    July 8, 2020
    The Stooges’ Fun House at 50
    July 7, 2020
    How Los Prisioneros’ ‘Corazones’ Became an Electropop Manifesto
    July 1, 2020
    P-Funk Sampled: 50 Years of Freeing Minds and Asses
    June 24, 2020
    Spotify’s Top 100
    May 3, 2016
    Pitchfork’s Best New Tracks
    May 3, 2016
    Spotify’s New Music Friday
    January 9, 2016
    Billboard Top 100
    June 8, 2015
    Ambrosia For Heads Weekly
    June 6, 2015
    Pigeons & Planes’ P&P Weekly
    April 5, 2015
    The Fader’s Songs You Need in Your Life
    April 5, 2015

The Dowsers

  • Genres
    • Indie
    • Electronic
    • Hip-Hop
    • Jazz + Blues
    • RnB
    • World, Reggae + Latin
    • Pop
    • Classical
    • Rock + Alternative
    Kiwi jr.’s Playlist
    June 22, 2020
    Diet Cig’s Stuck Inside Playlist
    June 17, 2020
    Tri Angle: The END (2010 – 2020)
    June 16, 2020
    Indie Rock Face-Off: Neo vs. ’90s
    March 4, 2020
    Indie Bedroom Jams
    February 14, 2020
    The U.K.’s Most Unlikely Top 40 Hits
    September 17, 2019
    The New New New Post-Punk
    September 12, 2019
    R.I.P. David Berman
    August 9, 2019
    The Greatest One-Person-Band Albums
    August 1, 2019
    Fond Farewells: 26 Posthumous Gems
    July 1, 2019
    Tri Angle: The END (2010 – 2020)
    June 16, 2020
    Children of Kraftwerk
    May 8, 2020
    A Warm Bath for Your Soul
    March 31, 2020
    The 40 Best Electronic Tracks of 2019
    December 27, 2019
    Rituals of Mine’s Playlist: Cryin’ in Public
    October 7, 2019
    Turning Jewels Into Water’s Playlist: Beats and Rituals
    September 24, 2019
    50 Songs in 5 Minutes
    September 20, 2019
    The Greatest One-Person-Band Albums
    August 1, 2019
    The Top 50 Electronic Tracks of 2018
    January 5, 2019
    How Germany Won at Synth Pop
    October 31, 2018
    The Unawarded: Beloved Artists Who’ve Never Won a Grammy
    February 7, 2020
    Your Music Horoscope: Sagittarius Season
    December 2, 2019
    Don’t Bore Us, Get to the Chorus
    October 8, 2019
    Isaac Hayes Sampled: 50 Years of ‘Hot Buttered Soul’
    September 30, 2019
    Your Music Horoscope: Virgo Season
    September 6, 2019
    The OGs of Emo-Rap
    August 22, 2019
    Your Music Horoscope: Leo Season
    August 2, 2019
    Your Music Horoscope: Cancer Season
    July 9, 2019
    Fond Farewells: 26 Posthumous Gems
    July 1, 2019
    The Top 50 Hip-Hop Tracks of 2018
    January 5, 2019
    The Sound of Liberation: Free Jazz Jams for Independence Day
    July 5, 2020
    The Other Sides of Little Richard
    May 11, 2020
    A Warm Bath for Your Soul
    March 31, 2020
    Lady Plays the Blues: Killer Female Blues Guitarists
    March 26, 2020
    Haruki Murakami’s Vinyl Collection
    November 26, 2018
    Erik Deutsch’s Hammers, Strings, Stops & Knobs
    September 14, 2018
    Kamasi Washington, Bob Dylan, and the Idea of Gateway Artists
    June 30, 2018
    How Pharoah Sanders Captured the Promise and Chaos of Revolution
    May 11, 2018
    Astral Traveling: The Ecstasy of Spiritual Jazz
    April 19, 2018
    Kamasi Washington and The Politics of Culture in Trump’s America
    April 15, 2018
    Prince: A Guide to the Indie Years
    November 6, 2019
    Don’t Bore Us, Get to the Chorus
    October 8, 2019
    Isaac Hayes Sampled: 50 Years of ‘Hot Buttered Soul’
    September 30, 2019
    Off the Wall: Great Quincy Jones Productions from the ’70s and ’80s
    August 14, 2019
    Your Music Horoscope: Leo Season
    August 2, 2019
    Your Music Horoscope: Cancer Season
    July 9, 2019
    National Treasure: Tina’s Best Vocal Performances
    July 10, 2018
    Echoes: The Impact of Michelle Branch’s “Everywhere”
    July 10, 2018
    Janelle Monàe and the Promise of a New America
    April 30, 2018
    Prince’s Sign O’ The Times: Unpacked
    March 24, 2018
    Caipirinha Time: Cool Brazilian Sounds for Summer
    July 20, 2020
    How Los Prisioneros’ ‘Corazones’ Became an Electropop Manifesto
    July 1, 2020
    Fusion Beats by De’Anza
    July 13, 2018
    For “Winnie”: Anti-Apartheid Songs of Protest
    February 21, 2018
    David Byrne Presents: The Beautiful Shitholes Playlist
    February 14, 2018
    Khruangbin’s South Goa Beach Playlist
    January 11, 2018
    Welcome to Psych 101
    December 12, 2017
    The Best Bossa Nova
    July 27, 2017
    The Ultimate Guide to Latin Alternative Music
    July 23, 2017
    The Best Syrian Music
    June 15, 2017
    50 (Mostly) Splendid Years of Sparks
    July 17, 2020
    Kiwi jr.’s Playlist
    June 22, 2020
    Androgyny at Its Best
    June 4, 2020
    The Other Sides of Little Richard
    May 11, 2020
    Children of Kraftwerk
    May 8, 2020
    Pitchfork’s Recommended if You Like Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia Playlist
    May 6, 2020
    The Beatles’ Influence on Modern Pop
    April 20, 2020
    Tame Impala’s Road to The Slow Rush
    February 26, 2020
    The Most Significant Soundtrack Songs of the Last Decade
    February 12, 2020
    The Unawarded: Beloved Artists Who’ve Never Won a Grammy
    February 7, 2020
    Maya Beiser: Music for the Day After
    February 17, 2018
    A Tribute to Jóhann Jóhannsson
    February 16, 2018
    The 20 Greatest Conductors of All Time
    July 30, 2017
    Aziz Ansari’s Master of None Season Two Soundtrack
    May 27, 2017
    Beethoven: The Essence of Change
    November 23, 2016
    HighSchoolMixtape: How I Got Into Classical Music
    August 5, 2016
    Nine Inch Nails’ Most Devastating Dirges
    April 13, 2020
    70 for Tom Waits at 70
    December 6, 2019
    Under the Radar Magazine’s Slept On #1
    November 4, 2019
    Unplugged & Immortal: The Best Live Acoustic Performances
    November 1, 2019
    Happy Samhain: Ringing In the Dark Half of the Year
    October 31, 2019
    Don’t Bore Us, Get to the Chorus
    October 8, 2019
    50 Songs in 5 Minutes
    September 20, 2019
    Other Tongue: Songs Sung in Fake Languages
    September 5, 2019
    R.I.P. David Berman
    August 9, 2019
    The Greatest One-Person-Band Albums
    August 1, 2019
  • Eras
    • ’60s
    • ’70s
    • ’80s
    • ’90s
    • ’10s
    • ’00s
    Classics You Didn’t Know Were Covers
    June 19, 2020
    The Pleasure Seekers
    The Original Riot Grrrls: Rock’s First All-Female Bands
    March 30, 2020
    The Roots of Prog-Metal: 1969-1977
    September 27, 2019
    Doors of Perception: The Songs That Introduced the World to Psychedelics
    August 18, 2018
    The Influence of The Lizard King: Great Artists Who Loved the Doors Madly
    July 29, 2018
    The Dark Dreams of The Doors, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud
    July 29, 2018
    Echoes: The Impact of “Break on Through (to the Other Side)”
    July 10, 2018
    It Ain’t Me: The Best of Creedence Clearwater Revival
    July 1, 2018
    How Pharoah Sanders Captured the Promise and Chaos of Revolution
    May 11, 2018
    The Most Punk Proto-Punk
    February 28, 2018
    Classics You Didn’t Know Were Covers
    June 19, 2020
    The Roots of Prog-Metal: 1969-1977
    September 27, 2019
    Off the Wall: Great Quincy Jones Productions from the ’70s and ’80s
    August 14, 2019
    Last Night a Disco Compilation Saved My Life: A Chat with Bill Brewster
    September 10, 2018
    Sylvester’s Mighty Realness
    September 5, 2018
    Studs, Synths, and Liberation: A Brief History of SF Disco
    August 30, 2018
    Revolution, With Bongos: The Indie Disco Explosion
    August 24, 2018
    Echoes: Foreigner, “Juke Box Hero”
    August 18, 2018
    The Foreigner Strut: Mick Jones and Lou Gramm’s Sweet Science of Swagger
    August 18, 2018
    David Bowie’s Rockin’ Ronson Years
    July 10, 2018
    The Eternal Coolness of ’80s Coming-of-Age-Movie Music
    July 10, 2020
    Classics You Didn’t Know Were Covers
    June 19, 2020
    Off the Wall: Great Quincy Jones Productions from the ’70s and ’80s
    August 14, 2019
    Pitchfork’s 200 Best Albums of the 1980s
    October 15, 2018
    Sometimes They Won’t Let You: Tina Turner and Other Genre-Benders
    August 20, 2018
    Why Tina Turner’s “The Best” Is The Perfect Workplace Soundtrack
    August 20, 2018
    Obscene Bass: Revisiting Miami’s Invasion of White Suburbia
    January 7, 2018
    Questlove’s Top 50 Hip-Hop Songs of All Time
    November 27, 2017
    '80s Psychedelia
    Psychedelia in the ’80s
    May 22, 2017
    The Best Michael Jackson Songs of All Time
    May 8, 2017
    1995: The Year Alternative Peaked
    April 16, 2020
    The Year in ’90s Metal
    December 11, 2019
    Unplugged & Immortal: The Best Live Acoustic Performances
    November 1, 2019
    Out of the Stacks: ’90s College Radio Staples Still At It
    October 4, 2019
    Was 1993 the Greatest Year in Music?
    November 26, 2018
    Concrete and Snare Drums: DJ Premier’s 25 Best Beats
    April 11, 2018
    ’90s Alt-Pop Revisited
    March 6, 2018
    The Best Britpop Deep Cuts and Forgotten Faves
    February 22, 2018
    Lin-Manuel Miranda and Anil Dash Teach You a Thing About New Jack Swing
    January 10, 2018
    Questlove’s Top 50 Hip-Hop Songs of All Time
    November 27, 2017
    The Most Significant Soundtrack Songs of the Last Decade
    February 12, 2020
    2010s: How The Swedes Dominated Another Decade
    December 20, 2019
    The Best 10 Hours of Music from 2018 (So Far)
    June 22, 2018
    Janelle Monàe and the Promise of a New America
    April 30, 2018
    Is It Time to Boycott KANYE?
    April 26, 2018
    The Chillwave Effect
    March 8, 2018
    The Definitive Guide to Modern Rap for Old-School Hip-Hop Heads
    February 1, 2018
    Sharon Jones and the Daptonization of Modern Pop
    November 20, 2017
    The Legacy of Burial’s Untrue
    August 29, 2017
    Alt-Country Women You Need to Know
    August 15, 2017
    Echoes: The Impact of Michelle Branch’s “Everywhere”
    July 10, 2018
    The Chillwave Effect
    March 8, 2018
    Blog Rock Revisited
    March 1, 2018
    Electroclash Forever
    February 20, 2018
    Whatever Happened to My (Early 2000s) Rock ‘n’ Roll?
    January 11, 2018
    How the L.A. Beat Scene Changed Modern Music
    October 31, 2017
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