![]() ![]() ![]() To commemorate Pitchfork’s 25th anniversary, we’ve gathered 25 such microgenres, great and small, that help illuminate music’s evolution over the past two and a half decades. Genre terms came to function almost like memes-totems passed along from mouth to mouth, keyboard to keyboard, text field to text field, both reflecting and shaping the cultural landscape they attempted to describe. A lot, too, probably has to do with the fact that in the era of forums, blogs, and finally social media, the discourse around music spun giddily out of control. Much of this factionalization is undoubtedly a function of how the internet facilitates like-minded individuals’ ability to seek each other out.
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