Rock 'n' roll will never die, and to prove it, subgenres like prog rock, shoegaze, garage rock, and these others that faded from the mainstream have come back.

The rock scene in the 1970s was rife with experimentation. The psychedelic sounds of the 1960s were beginning to wane and, as a result, opened up room for new sub-genres to stake their claim. Several ...

From street-corner harmonies to electronic drops, American music has seen waves of genres that dominated the airwaves, clubs, and cultural imagination, only to fade as quickly as they arrived. Some ...

Rock music has evolved in countless directions since the genre's emergence in the '50s and '60s—whether that's heavy metal icons like Metallica and Black Sabbath, new wave bands such as The Police and ...

What makes a music genre truly popular is more layered than it seems. Is it the number of times a song gets streamed on a lazy Sunday afternoon? The way it dominates charts across continents? Or maybe ...

Still, even by Grammys standards, 2025's rock awards seemed particularly stale. To understand why, it might help to know how the voting works. To be eligible this cycle, recordings needed to be ...