In the spring of 1982, six friends got together in an East Village apartment to start a country-punk band. They had a guitar, ...

Jim Kerr of Simple Minds was moments away from walking onto the stage at the start of a concert when he spotted the support band sitting on flight cases, looking miserable. What’s up?, he asked them.

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Championed by a former chief medical officer, Lifeline is both a musical following Alexander Fleming’s discovery of the first antibiotic and a warning about the threat of superbugs in the present day ...

The letter X can be a lot of things: rebellious, mysterious, religious. For this Word of the Week, we examine its origins and ...

During an imperial career from 1983 until 1987, The Smiths reigned supreme as the most revered British band since The Beatles ...

In an exclusive extract from a new book about the life of Stuart Adamson, we look at the hidden story behind The Crossing ...

In this installment of Shakedown Beat, WAMC's Josh Landes interviews the band Spafford and reviews three dates of the tour ...

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In the spirit of everything analog, here are some great events to bring you back into the real world this weekend, kicking ...

Whether it's a movie adaptation of a book or a cover of an old song by a new band, the question of which one was better ...