my year of mixtapes

This week we're tackling a touchy subject: Happy Hardcore. This genre, defined by its fast tempo, stompy drums, and aggressively optimis...

Ten weeks ago, I made a mixtape of classic 1990s vocal house tunes. In my little introductory blurb, I wrote the following: " Oh, and b...

These famous steely Germans are the most important and influential European music act of the 20th century, period. (I am prepared to go to t...

So back in the 1960s you had Soul music—a terribly vague term encompassing a lot of things, but a designation that still gets used nonethele...