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23 October, 1989  To the music-happy youth of Britain, late 1989 was...

Technically speaking, Neko Case isn't Canadian: she was born in Virginia and now lives in Vermont. But she's always felt like an honorary Ca...

Cigarettes were all but snuffed out in films and TV shows by the turn of the millennium. Now they’re making a comeback. Plot-driven or something more sinister?

Cigarettes were all but snuffed out in films and TV shows by the turn of the millennium. Now they’re making a comeback. Plot-driven or something more sinister?

Cigarettes were all but snuffed out in films and TV shows by the turn of the millennium. Now they’re making a comeback. Plot-driven or something more sinister?

Hein van der Ree tells MBW about how €100m-backed Pythagoras Music Fund fits into the music rights acquisitions market…

Thursday's MEDICINE BALL CARAVAN on KRVS (11am-noon cst on 88.7FM local or krvs.org everywhere) conjures up the latest from The Smile, Superchunk, The Lazy Eyes, Bruisey Peets, Snail Mail, Hollis Brown and My Morning Jacket. Also: Bright Eyes, The Doors, Wavves, Viatones, The Amazing Nuns, Shocking Blue, Elliott Smith, Flaming Lips, King Crimson, ABBA, Badfinger and more.

Part of the attraction of the Netflix series "The Queen's Gambit" is the design: costumes, buildings and music evoke the 1960s, the time in which the series is set. In a crucial scene of the series the Dutch band Shocking Blue provides the background music. Shocking Blue, founded in 1967, might not be as famous as other bands from the 1960s and 1970s but it still has ardent followers, and one of them is a prominent chess player and well-known coach. | Photo: Netflix

Almost 52 years ago, 11-year-old Geraldine Settee left her St. Vital home to buy pop and chips at a ...

Ahead of a tour and new reissue, New Pornographers leader Carl Newman looks back on the surreal history of his unlikely indie supergroup.