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
Spotify’s New Music Friday
  • Genres
    • Indie
    • Electronic
    • Hip-Hop
    • Jazz + Blues
    • RnB
    • World, Reggae + Latin
    • Pop
    • Classical
    • Rock + Alternative
    Cat Power’s The Woman Playlist
    October 8, 2018
    The Beths’ I Feel Sad Today Playlist
    October 4, 2018
    Well Well Well’s “Here & Now, There & Then” Playlist
    August 2, 2018
    Matt Holubowski’s Ode to Montreal Playlist
    August 2, 2018
    The Holy Knives: Field Guide
    July 18, 2018
    The Coathangers’ Nosebleed Weekend Playlist
    July 13, 2018
    Unholy Sacrament: The Best of Deerhunter
    May 23, 2018
    The Incremental Evolution of Indie Rock
    May 14, 2018
    Twin Shadow’s “Brace | Caer” Playlist
    April 27, 2018
    Speedy Ortiz’s “Streamy Ortiz” Playlist
    April 27, 2018
    Matthew Dear’s Good Ones
    October 8, 2018
    Fusion Beats by De’Anza
    July 13, 2018
    DJ Koze’s Psychedelic Journey Into the Sublime
    May 10, 2018
    Into the Mist, The Ambient Mixtape
    May 7, 2018
    Four Tet’s Insane (Nearly) Never-Ending Playlist
    May 3, 2018
    Ross From Friends’ Hi Guys Playlist
    May 1, 2018
    DJ Seinfeld’s Dancefloors and Departure Lounges
    April 24, 2018
    Tim Hecker and the Art of Ambient Assault Music
    April 19, 2018
    The Liminal Brilliance of Daniel Avery’s Experimental Techno
    April 15, 2018
    James Murphy & Soulwax’s Despacio Party Playlist
    April 9, 2018
    The Best Hip-Hop Tracks of 2018 (So Far)
    June 28, 2018
    The Agony and Ecstasy Of Loving Nas
    June 24, 2018
    The Golden Age of Delicious Vinyl
    June 15, 2018
    Chance the Rapper’s 30 Best Guest Verses
    April 11, 2018
    Concrete and Snare Drums: DJ Premier’s 25 Best Beats
    April 11, 2018
    Indie Hip-Hop Goddess Rapper Jean Grae Returns
    April 5, 2018
    Tyler, the Creator Is Rap Royalty
    April 4, 2018
    Future & Zaytoven: Just Like Bruddas
    February 11, 2018
    The Best Hip-Hop Soundtrack Songs
    February 8, 2018
    Kanye Goes South
    February 7, 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
    Black Experimental Music Mixtape: Vol. 3
    October 24, 2017
    Black Experimental Music Mixtape Vol. 1
    August 6, 2017
    The Amazing Evolution of Miles Davis
    July 18, 2017
    The Afrofuturist Impulse in Music
    May 26, 2017
    Champions of Ethiopian Groove
    May 16, 2017
    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
    François K’s Favorite Danceable and Funky Records
    February 20, 2018
    The Four Faces of Justin Timberlake
    January 29, 2018
    Lin-Manuel Miranda and Anil Dash Teach You a Thing About New Jack Swing
    January 10, 2018
    Moby’s Beautiful Inspirations
    January 9, 2018
    The Death of Boogie and Birth of House: Disco’s ’80s Mutations
    January 4, 2018
    Woke As Fuck Disco Mix
    December 21, 2017
    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
    Riddim Killers: 40 Years of Greensleeves
    May 26, 2017
    The Best of Lee “Scratch Perry” at the Black Ark
    May 24, 2017
    The Profound Melancholy and Euphoria of the Pet Shop Boys “Always on My Mind”
    September 28, 2018
    The Best Synth-Pop Cover Songs
    September 28, 2018
    Erik Deutsch’s Hammers, Strings, Stops & Knobs
    September 14, 2018
    Jean Castel: Orange & Yellow, The Sounds Playlist
    August 31, 2018
    Femme Playlist by CXLOE
    August 10, 2018
    Luke Top’s 20 Moods Playlist
    August 3, 2018
    National Treasure: Tina’s Best Vocal Performances
    July 10, 2018
    Janelle Monàe and the Promise of a New America
    April 30, 2018
    Camila Cabello’s Favorite Love Songs
    February 26, 2018
    Songs Taylor Loves
    February 12, 2018
    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
    Your Desert Daze Playlist
    October 9, 2018
    Tom Morello: Radical Music
    October 8, 2018
    How Tracy Chapman’s Debut Made Her the 1980s’ Most Unlikely Icon
    September 28, 2018
    Charting the Outer Limits of The Monkees
    September 28, 2018
    Ratt’s Unlikely Punk Rock Roots
    September 28, 2018
    GØGGS’ Leavin’ Town Playlist
    September 27, 2018
    Dry Season Playlist by NOTHING
    August 24, 2018
    The Foreigner Strut: Mick Jones and Lou Gramm’s Sweet Science of Swagger
    August 18, 2018
    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
  • Eras
    • ’60s
    • ’70s
    • ’80s
    • ’90s
    • ’10s
    • ’00s
    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
    The Best Beatles Songs by John Lennon
    July 20, 2017
    Classic-Rock Songs for Progressive Patriots
    July 2, 2017
    How Sgt. Pepper Taught the Bands to Play
    May 30, 2017
    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 Influence of A Clockwork Orange on David Bowie
    July 10, 2018
    Echoes: The Impact of “Suffragette City”
    July 10, 2018
    The Most Punk Proto-Punk
    February 28, 2018
    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
    The Age of Electric: How The Cult Launched a Hard Rock Renaissance
    April 5, 2017
    When Punk Got Weird
    March 9, 2017
    How the ‘80s Sucked Me into the ‘60s
    March 7, 2017
    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
    Wu-Tang Forever, Fixed
    June 9, 2017
    Beastie Boys’ Check Your Head: Unpacked
    April 20, 2017
    Curing My Britpop Blindspot
    April 19, 2017
    Boom Bap
    High School High and The Last Days of The Boom Bap Era
    March 7, 2017
    Key Samples: A Tribe Called Quest
    December 26, 2016
    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
    Broken Social Scene Presents: The New Sounds of Toronto Playlist
    July 9, 2017
    Modern Rock Is Really Just Electronic Pop
    June 29, 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
    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
    Kurt Cobain’s 50 Favorite Records
    November 28, 2017
    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
    HAIM’s Favorite Songs
    July 5, 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
    Doe Paoro’s “In My Feelings” Playlist
    October 19, 2018
    Demon Dayz 2018
    October 15, 2018
    Eric Church’s Outsiders Radio Playlist
    October 15, 2018
    La Force’s Deep Duende Playlist
    October 11, 2018
    Your Desert Daze Playlist
    October 9, 2018
    Matthew Dear’s Good Ones
    October 8, 2018
    Cat Power’s The Woman Playlist
    October 8, 2018
    Tom Morello: Radical Music
    October 8, 2018
    The Beths’ I Feel Sad Today Playlist
    October 4, 2018
    GØGGS’ Leavin’ Town Playlist
    September 27, 2018
    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
    The Black Experimental Music Mixtape
    February 6, 2018
    Cloud Daze: Songs for Daydreaming
    January 29, 2018
    The Top 50 Metal Songs of 2017
    December 11, 2017
    The Top 50 Indie-Rock Songs of 2017
    December 7, 2017
    The Top 50 Electronic Tracks of 2017
    December 7, 2017
    The Top 50 Pop Songs of 2017
    December 6, 2017
    The Top 50 Hip-Hop Tracks of 2017
    December 6, 2017
    The Top 50 Jazz Tracks of 2017
    December 3, 2017
    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
    Cat Power’s The Woman Playlist
    October 8, 2018
    The Beths’ I Feel Sad Today Playlist
    October 4, 2018
    Well Well Well’s “Here & Now, There & Then” Playlist
    August 2, 2018
    Matt Holubowski’s Ode to Montreal Playlist
    August 2, 2018
    The Holy Knives: Field Guide
    July 18, 2018
    The Coathangers’ Nosebleed Weekend Playlist
    July 13, 2018
    Unholy Sacrament: The Best of Deerhunter
    May 23, 2018
    The Incremental Evolution of Indie Rock
    May 14, 2018
    Twin Shadow’s “Brace | Caer” Playlist
    April 27, 2018
    Speedy Ortiz’s “Streamy Ortiz” Playlist
    April 27, 2018
    Matthew Dear’s Good Ones
    October 8, 2018
    Fusion Beats by De’Anza
    July 13, 2018
    DJ Koze’s Psychedelic Journey Into the Sublime
    May 10, 2018
    Into the Mist, The Ambient Mixtape
    May 7, 2018
    Four Tet’s Insane (Nearly) Never-Ending Playlist
    May 3, 2018
    Ross From Friends’ Hi Guys Playlist
    May 1, 2018
    DJ Seinfeld’s Dancefloors and Departure Lounges
    April 24, 2018
    Tim Hecker and the Art of Ambient Assault Music
    April 19, 2018
    The Liminal Brilliance of Daniel Avery’s Experimental Techno
    April 15, 2018
    James Murphy & Soulwax’s Despacio Party Playlist
    April 9, 2018
    The Best Hip-Hop Tracks of 2018 (So Far)
    June 28, 2018
    The Agony and Ecstasy Of Loving Nas
    June 24, 2018
    The Golden Age of Delicious Vinyl
    June 15, 2018
    Chance the Rapper’s 30 Best Guest Verses
    April 11, 2018
    Concrete and Snare Drums: DJ Premier’s 25 Best Beats
    April 11, 2018
    Indie Hip-Hop Goddess Rapper Jean Grae Returns
    April 5, 2018
    Tyler, the Creator Is Rap Royalty
    April 4, 2018
    Future & Zaytoven: Just Like Bruddas
    February 11, 2018
    The Best Hip-Hop Soundtrack Songs
    February 8, 2018
    Kanye Goes South
    February 7, 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
    Black Experimental Music Mixtape: Vol. 3
    October 24, 2017
    Black Experimental Music Mixtape Vol. 1
    August 6, 2017
    The Amazing Evolution of Miles Davis
    July 18, 2017
    The Afrofuturist Impulse in Music
    May 26, 2017
    Champions of Ethiopian Groove
    May 16, 2017
    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
    François K’s Favorite Danceable and Funky Records
    February 20, 2018
    The Four Faces of Justin Timberlake
    January 29, 2018
    Lin-Manuel Miranda and Anil Dash Teach You a Thing About New Jack Swing
    January 10, 2018
    Moby’s Beautiful Inspirations
    January 9, 2018
    The Death of Boogie and Birth of House: Disco’s ’80s Mutations
    January 4, 2018
    Woke As Fuck Disco Mix
    December 21, 2017
    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
    Riddim Killers: 40 Years of Greensleeves
    May 26, 2017
    The Best of Lee “Scratch Perry” at the Black Ark
    May 24, 2017
    The Profound Melancholy and Euphoria of the Pet Shop Boys “Always on My Mind”
    September 28, 2018
    The Best Synth-Pop Cover Songs
    September 28, 2018
    Erik Deutsch’s Hammers, Strings, Stops & Knobs
    September 14, 2018
    Jean Castel: Orange & Yellow, The Sounds Playlist
    August 31, 2018
    Femme Playlist by CXLOE
    August 10, 2018
    Luke Top’s 20 Moods Playlist
    August 3, 2018
    National Treasure: Tina’s Best Vocal Performances
    July 10, 2018
    Janelle Monàe and the Promise of a New America
    April 30, 2018
    Camila Cabello’s Favorite Love Songs
    February 26, 2018
    Songs Taylor Loves
    February 12, 2018
    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
    Your Desert Daze Playlist
    October 9, 2018
    Tom Morello: Radical Music
    October 8, 2018
    How Tracy Chapman’s Debut Made Her the 1980s’ Most Unlikely Icon
    September 28, 2018
    Charting the Outer Limits of The Monkees
    September 28, 2018
    Ratt’s Unlikely Punk Rock Roots
    September 28, 2018
    GØGGS’ Leavin’ Town Playlist
    September 27, 2018
    Dry Season Playlist by NOTHING
    August 24, 2018
    The Foreigner Strut: Mick Jones and Lou Gramm’s Sweet Science of Swagger
    August 18, 2018
    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
  • Eras
    • ’60s
    • ’70s
    • ’80s
    • ’90s
    • ’10s
    • ’00s
    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
    The Best Beatles Songs by John Lennon
    July 20, 2017
    Classic-Rock Songs for Progressive Patriots
    July 2, 2017
    How Sgt. Pepper Taught the Bands to Play
    May 30, 2017
    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 Influence of A Clockwork Orange on David Bowie
    July 10, 2018
    Echoes: The Impact of “Suffragette City”
    July 10, 2018
    The Most Punk Proto-Punk
    February 28, 2018
    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
    The Age of Electric: How The Cult Launched a Hard Rock Renaissance
    April 5, 2017
    When Punk Got Weird
    March 9, 2017
    How the ‘80s Sucked Me into the ‘60s
    March 7, 2017
    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
    Wu-Tang Forever, Fixed
    June 9, 2017
    Beastie Boys’ Check Your Head: Unpacked
    April 20, 2017
    Curing My Britpop Blindspot
    April 19, 2017
    Boom Bap
    High School High and The Last Days of The Boom Bap Era
    March 7, 2017
    Key Samples: A Tribe Called Quest
    December 26, 2016
    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
    Broken Social Scene Presents: The New Sounds of Toronto Playlist
    July 9, 2017
    Modern Rock Is Really Just Electronic Pop
    June 29, 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
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