Songsheets: The Stories Behind the Music

French Touch House, 1987–2005

How Parisian producers filtered disco samples through space-age gear and transformed global dance music in the 1990s This is a members' issue. Read it free for a week, w

CBGB's 70s Punk

How a Bowery dive bar became ground zero for American punk rock and new wave This is a members' issue. Read it free for a week, with the records and photographs: songshe

DC Hardcore, 1979–1986

How a handful of teenagers in the nation's capital ignited the straight edge movement and redefined American punk Chapters 00:00 Chapter 1: The Scene02:12 Chapter 2: Ke

Britpop, 1992–1997

How Suede, Blur, Oasis and Pulp turned guitar pop into a national conversation about class, identity and being British Chapters 00:00 Chapter 1: The Scene04:25 Chapter

UK Post-Punk, 1977–1984

From Manchester's Factory Records to London's art-punk experiments, the movement that made darkness dance Chapters 00:00 Chapter 1: The Scene02:35 Chapter 2: Key Player

Detroit Techno, 1981–1995

Three teenagers from a Detroit suburb fused Parliament-Funkadelic and Kraftwerk in their basements, birthing the blueprint for electronic music's future Chapters 00:00

Japanese City Pop, 1973–1989

The sophisticated soundtrack of Japan's economic boom, from studio perfectionism to global rediscovery Chapters 00:00 Chapter 1: The Scene03:07 Chapter 2: Key Players05

Riot Grrrl, 1988–1996

The underground feminist punk revolution that erupted from Olympia and DC, weaponizing zines, raw sound, and radical politics Chapters 00:00 Chapter 1: The Scene04:05 C

70s Dub Reggae

King Tubby, Lee Perry, and the studio engineers who turned the mixing desk into an instrument Chapters 00:00 Chapter 1: The Scene04:13 Chapter 2: Key Players11:41 Chapt