I was speaking with a friend recently about the complexities of reggaeton, a genre they claimed to not enjoy not because of the beats, but the often misogynistic and sexist approach to the lyrics and subject matter of mainstream hits. It’s a valid point, one that illustrates how these themes
The origin point of house music can be traced definitively back to Chicago, where the form arose as a reaction to disco and became popularised by its Black, mostly queer, progenitors at the South Side’s The Warehouse nightclub from which the genre takes its name. But house would also find
Image by Angelo Kritikos Jersey Club is having a moment. The lightning speed beats and hyperactive bounce of the genre have become increasingly more pertinent in the sound of the zeitgeist (cue: Ciara’s Level Up). This is likely thanks in part to the astronomical rise of Tik-Tok, whose one minute
