There was a wave of bands from the West Midlands towards the end of the 1980s. The Wonder Stuff was one of the most fun.
There’s an argument that Iggy Pop and the Stooges embodied the spirit of punk as early as 1967. Their music was raw and noisy, a reaction to how rock was starting to become very slick and professional ...
Pale Blue Eyes (given their name have to be fans of The Velvet Underground) are a trio from the Sheffield region of England. Consisting of a married couple, Matt and Lucy Board, and bass player Aubrey ...
Sans Patrie (French for “without a homeland”) is based in NYC but features members from California, Argentina, Mexico, and Spain. (That also explains a lot of their bilingual lyrics.) They’ve got ...
In 2024, Linkin Park MK 2 was launched, seven years after they lost frontman Chester Bennington. This new version of the group features a new vocalist in Emily Armstrong and drummer Colin Brittain.
I recently learned about a very strange orchestra that made its debut in London in the summer of 1914. It was led by Tove Jansson and consisted of a weird array of custom-made noisemakers conceived by ...
In the 1920s, radio was to music what the Internet is today. When commercial radio was born towards the end of the First World War, no one played records on the radio. In fact, for much of the 1920s, ...
This week’s New Music Friday is features new singles from a couple of excellent Canadian artists along with the return of ...
How’s this for an album title? Lackluster Writing Makes Fundamental Reading. This is the debut from a Belfast noise-rock band, Makeshift Art Bar. They’re a four-piece who have been terrorizing ...
Mangione’s lead lawyer, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, told the December 4 Committee that Luigi ‘very much appreciates the ...
Following 2023 news reports that questioned the Indigenous ancestry of Buffy Sainte-Marie, the Governor General has ...
On chapter four of The 100 Most Important Moments covers the establishment of a major Canadian music prize, getting the band ...