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At a pop music moment when genre mash-ups like Girl Talk, M.I.A., Gnarls Barkley, and Kanye West’s new album 808s and Heartbreak abound, categories like rap, soul/r&b, rock/pop, etc. may have finally exhausted their use. Molly Lambert of This Recording, that tireless ethnographer of online music culture, offers a list of obscure genres to revitalize [...]