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The third child of Harold and Beverly Poneman, Jonathan Poneman was born October 9, 1959, in Toledo, Ohio, and grew up in the suburb of Ottawa Hills. [2] He got his first job, pumping gas at a local filling station at the age of 14. [3]
Backlash was a zine that was published from 1987 to 1991 by Dawn Anderson, covering the "dirtier, heavier, more underground and rock side of Seattle's music scene", including "punk, metal, underground rock, grunge before it was called grunge and even some local hip-hop." [142] Grunge Gerl #1 was one early 1990s grunge zine; the publication was ...
[49] [50] Vaporwave coincided with a broader trend involving young artists whose works drew from their childhoods in the 1980s. [51] [nb 2] "Chillwave" and "hypnagogic pop" were coined at virtually the same time, in mid-2009, and were considered interchangeable terms. Like vaporwave, they engaged with notions of nostalgia and cultural memory. [52]
Hyperpop (sometimes called bubblegum bass) [1] is a loosely defined electronic music movement [2] [3] and microgenre [4] that predominantly originated in the United Kingdom during the early 2010s.
It is frequently used as a musical response to perceived political and/or social injustices. In South Africa the largest form of hip hop is called Kwaito, which has had a growth similar to U.S. hip hop. Kwaito is a direct reflection of a post-apartheid South Africa and is a voice for the voiceless; a term that U.S. hip hop is often referred to ...
The Wall of Sound (also called the Spector Sound) [1] [2] is a music production formula developed by American record producer Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios, in the 1960s, with assistance from engineer Larry Levine and the conglomerate of session musicians later known as "the Wrecking Crew".
Hip-hop or hip hop (formerly known as disco rap) [7] [8] is a genre of popular music that emerged in the early 1970s in New York City. The genre is characterized by stylized rhythmic sounds—often built around disco grooves, electronic drum beats, and rapping, a percussive vocal delivery of rhymed poetic speech as consciousness-raising ...
Grunge speak was a hoax series of slang words purportedly connected to the subculture of grunge in Seattle, reported as fact in The New York Times in 1992. The collection of alleged slang words were coined by a record label worker in response to a journalist asking if grunge musicians and enthusiasts had their own slang terms, seeking to write a piece on the subject.