The manic spawn of mashup mayhem
How speed remixes and wacky mashups are taking over the music industry and forming a giant musical landfill.
Kieran Press-Reynolds
Is corecore radical art or gibberish shitposts?
As the subversive video style has blown up online, the heated discourse around it has become its own kind of art.
Bells & Whistles, Vol. 12: Time for spelunking!
Featuring reviews of the R.A.P. Ferreira album ‘5 to the Eye with Stars,’ a Xaviersobased show and the music of 7Nightz and Sayako.
This is corecore (we’re not kidding)
In a particularly fried corner of TikTok, creators are tagging chaotic cat compilations and alpha wolf edits “corecore.” It’s genre clickbait at its finest.
How the cult of Drain Gang rose from meme to myth
Drain Gang’s impact can be felt throughout internet music and culture. How did we get here?
Can a streaming platform create a niche music genre?
How Spotify has flattened internet music scenes like phonk and digicore with its editorial playlists.
Deep-internet bubbles: How microgenres are taking over SoundCloud
As the internet decentralizes culture, SoundCloud has unfurled into a sprawl of microgenres. Kieran Press-Reynolds investigates.