Every music sub-genre known to man!

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There have been a couple of music sub-genre threads but this will be the grandaddy of them all. I stumbled onto this deep-dive rabbit-hole of music yesterday.

The genres are loosely associated by color. Click on a sub (word) and it will play an example of that music style. Click on the double arrows by the word and it will take you to a page of artists. Click of the artists name and it will play a sample of their music. For more info about that artist, click the double arrow by their name.

If you love music, be prepare to get lost here.

I give you, Every Noise At Once.

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Thanks for sharing that site. I hope they continue to build it out. It’s missing some pivotal artists but the categories I explored seem to be populated more intelligently than I would have expected in a project labeling artists who mostly try really hard not to be labeled.

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I agree. They are strong sub-genres, less so on artists but presumably they are working on filling it in. Still I was able to discover some new (to me) artists that I would never have known about had it not been for this site.

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Maybe this is a new thread… This looks similar to https://www.literature-map.com/

This is the same type thing, but for authors.

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I suppose it’s always possible to nitpick such a list, but I found it strange that their example of “jam band” is moe. covering In a Big Country. moe. is certainly a jam band, but I wouldn’t say that that song is in the jam band genre, even if it’s covered by a jam band.

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Indeed, I’d bet most of the relies to this thread will be folks disagreeing with artists classifications.

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Yeah, The Dickies are under the subgenre of Early US Punk, but the music sample is “Killer Klowns” (1988) which is in no way representative of that category.

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Where do they put 4’33"?

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Minimalism?

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I know you were just quipping but he’s under here:

My gosh, what a rabbit hole. Thanks OP.

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Looks really interesting, and it correctly classified a few artists I tried, even quite obscure ones. But I don’t understand the organization of the chart at all.

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And I didn’t find Spectral Music, one of the most important developments of contemporary classical music.

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It certainly has its weird idiosyncrasies. For example, I’ve followed Throwing Muses through their whole career and solo offshoots and have never once heard the term “Rhode Island Indie” as a genre. They have always been lumped into Boston pop/rock/indie.

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That’s a genre I was heavily into about 30 years ago. My name for it was “Pixies Adjacent”.

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This is sort of like Pete Frame’s Rock Family Trees on steroids. If you’re not familiar with his books, here’s a sample page:

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Out of curiosity, I googled it and got several hits.

Example: Rhode Island Indie artists and listeners — Musicalyst

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No mbaqanga. No kwela. No pantsula. Not so comprehensive. They do at least have kwaito and amapiano.

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So just like all other indie then? :wink: A criticism to the critic industry, in general a genre that lumps artists together solely because of geographic coexistence is useless. It’s tripe like that that groups The Ramones with Talking Heads simply because they played at the same club.

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I found a mistake. Near the bottom, under “Deep Delta Blues”, the sample track is what sounds like a 19th-century British hymn!!

Also, I never suspected there was such a thing as Chinese reggae.

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No Pirate Metal? Not much Pirate at all.