To commemorate Pitchfork’s 25th anniversary, the music site has gathered 25 microgenres, great and small, that help illuminate music’s evolution over the past two and a half decades - since the start of Pitchfork. There's freak-folk, chillwave, lo-fi study beats, crabcore, shitgaze, night bus, and plenty other marvelous small ideas. Check 'em all out.

Grimes made a playlist with her, Bjork, Massive Attack, Cocteau Twins and others on in, lobbying to make "ethereal" a genre. She usually disagrees with the idea of genre as such, and believes her music "doesn't fit into any existing format or genre" and "therefore cannot be on playlists or radio", Brooklyn Vegan reports. She […]