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30 Essential Songs From The Golden Era Of Emo
Ask anyone old enough to drink what they think emo is, and you'll get about as many different responses as people willing to answer. They'll just about all be right, too (if Last.fm is any kind of...
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26 Essential Songs From The NYC Rock Resurgence
Mainstream American rock music, as you might recall, was in rough shape in the late '90s. The Alt-Nation era had run out of road for the most part, giving way to legions of awful post-grunge and...
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30 Essential Post-Rock Songs
Above all else, the Wikipedia entry on post-rock exemplifies how difficult it can be to pin down movements in music: Did the genre begin in the '90s? The '80s? The term was coined a little over 20...
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30 Essential Radiohead Non-Album Tracks
My passionate teenage obsession with Radiohead coincided with the rise of Napster. So whereas previous generations of fanatical music fans lived and died by record stores, catalogs, and zines, I surfed...
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30 Essential Max Martin Songs
The thought came to me in a drug store. Or a department store. Or the backseat of a taxicab. I don't remember where it was, exactly, except that it was the type of place where, in 2015, one might hear...
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The 31 Best U2 Non-Album Tracks
U2 are the kind of band that doesn't so much release albums as release events. In the context of their career, that means various things at various times. There's their sheer popularity, the result of...
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Various Artists: A Tribute To ’90s Tribute Albums
It's Weird '90s Week on Stereogum. All week long we're looking at the strangest musical moments and trends of the decade. Check out more here. More »
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34 Essential Glam Songs
When Marc Bolan appeared on the BBC show Top Of The Pops in March 1971 to perform his smash hit "Hot Love," he launched a pop revolution not only with his music, but with his look. He appeared in...
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The 36 Best Odd Future Songs Not By Frank Ocean
The earliest iteration of Odd Future was formed in 2007 although the collective didn't release their first mixtape, The Odd Future Tape, until 2008. Ten years later, several members have grown from...
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36 Essential ’80s Pop Metal Tracks
The biggest difference between the heavy metal of today and heavy metal during the glory days of the 1980s is that today it is rife with division. Mainstream versus underground. “Extreme” versus...
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31 Essential Shoegaze Tracks
"Shoegaze" was not initially meant as a compliment. Like "impressionists" (used dismissively by an art critic in 1874), "Krautrock," or more recently "deplorable(s)," the phrase began life as a fairly...
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14 Essential Paisley Underground Songs
Although it's identified with Los Angeles, the Paisley Underground has roots that extend about 400 miles to the north. Specifically, to Davis, California, a small college town near Sacramento. Even...
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38 Essential ’80s Songs About Nuclear Anxiety
We talk about the ‘80s a lot. Nostalgia for that decade and its pop culture has both seemed to move in cycles and be ever-present for something like the last 15 years. It’s an interesting paradox: We...
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A Beginner’s Guide To Peter Gabriel: 27 Essential Tracks
In the history of classic rock, few big names have had a career quite like Peter Gabriel's. After all, it's hard to even make sense of his arc: This is a guy who went from '70s prog to an art-rock...
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30 Essential Grunge Songs
You can choose all sorts of genesis points when you look back at a moment as era-defining and yet difficult to clarify as grunge. One route might be to focus on the movement's mainstream insurgence in...
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19 Essential Hold Steady B-Sides
One of the first things we hear Craig Finn snarl on his band's 2004 debut album is a simple declaration of intent: "We gotta start it off with a positive jam!" This -- and Finn's decade-by-decade...
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31 Essential Horror Soundtrack Songs
It makes sense that we’re experiencing a horror renaissance. The genre took off during the Great Depression and has been there for us in difficult times to accentuate and provide some semblance of...
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28 Essential Reggaeton Songs From The Early 2000s To Now
I was born in San Francisco, CA to two Chicano musicians who connected over their complete obsession with playing and studying music. Once we were old enough to hold instruments, my sister and I...
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30 Essential Noise Rock Tracks
Grind. Skronk. Pigfuck. Seemingly every word associated with noise rock sounds incredibly unflattering out of context, and even in context doesn't fare much better. Before noise rock had a name, rock...
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17 Essential Songs In 7/4
There's a reason why all those Ramones songs start with "1-2-3-4!" -- and also a reason why Captain Beefheart raged against the "big mama heartbeat." For anyone growing up in America in the last...
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