A genre is a category of artistic, musical or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form or content. Music genres such as pop, country, rock and folk are used to categorize songs ...

The lyrics of English-language songs have become simpler and more repetitive over the past 40 years, according to a study published in Scientific Reports. The pre-existing network of labels, record ...

Some artists set out to revolutionize music. They plot, they plan, they announce their intentions to the world. Then there ...

From proto-punk to grunge via prog and disco, these 14 groundbreaking tracks lit the fuse on whole new genres, shaping music ...

Everybody loves the blues in some capacity. This genre of soulful music can be traced back to the 1860s in the Deep South. The origins of the blues started with African-American musicians who created ...

When it comes to certain genres of music, some names are pretty self-explanatory: you can picture what"drum and bass" and "Cajun" might sound like pretty easily (and even if you're off, you're ...

Sarah Lewis is a Feature Writer based in the UK. She loves to watch and write about everything from classic romance movies to bingeable reality TV. John Carney’s 2007 romantic drama Once is not your ...