Early on, music labelled "industrial" referred to a non-musical approach to its creation; pioneers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Klaus Shul...

Though itself an offshoot of techno, over the past decade trance has become one of dance music's base genres. Long the favoured whipping boy...

"African music" is obviously a generalization of a complex subject. Within a continent of over 50 countries, there exist many more nations,...

Hip-hop production has come a long way since DJs created musical backdrops fashioning breakbeats with two copies of the same record on turnt...

Ambient (literally means atmosphere) generally refers to, but is not restricted to, beat-less music spanning in length beyond the three- to...

The term Latin music, like world music, attempts to segment one market of music from a wide variety of cultures. Different Latin American cu...

From time of mohawks, leather and safety pins to bleached hair, backpacks and baggy pants, punk rock has had a lasting and mostly under-appr...

Soul was the name ascribed to the evolving style of R&B in the 1960s, while the original style of rhythm and blues was being referred to as...

Although known by various other terms of endearment (y'alternative, Americana), the essence of alt-country is in preserving the North Americ...

Born in the ghettos and shantytowns of Kingston, Jamaica in the late ‘50s, ska has had three consistent characteristics: the emphasis on the...

Many people associate techno with raves, or define it as music made exclusively with technology. In harsher times, African-American dance fa...