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The musical galaxy is big. These are the corners of it I keep coming back to. Not because they're the only ones worth writing about, but because they've earned it.
PUNK
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Fast, loud, and still saying something.
Before CBGB, before the Ramones, before any of it - there was Death.
READ →REGGAE
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Roots, dub, and the long shadow of Kingston.
Hog & Goat is the roots reggae record that should've changed everything
READ →METAL
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Heavy in every sense of the word.
The Slayer problem: too fast for the mainstream, too good to ignore.
READ →A genre-resistant Black band from Los Angeles spent two decades being too punk for funk, too funk for punk, and too good for either to ignore. A look back at the records, the live shows, and the institutional failure to give them their due.
READ →The band that supposedly invented goth spent most of their career trying to escape the label. A closer listen to what they actually made suggests the category always fit badly - and that the music is stranger and better for it.
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