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This Town: new drama charts the influence of ska on inner city kids during bleak Thatcher years
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 3 months agoThis Town, the new BBC drama from Peaky Blinders creator Stephen Knight, revisits the Midlands...
As ska's conquering ruler, Derrick Morgan delivers freedom sounds to a new generation
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoDerrick Morgan is a legend — a rougher than rough, tougher than tough, onetime rude boy who helped shape the sound of ska in the 1960s. Singing braggadocious tunes and loving duets for more ...
Terry Hall, frontman for English ska-punk band the Specials, dies at 63
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoTerry Hall of the Specials performs in 2022. (Dimitri Hakke / Redferns via Getty Images) Terry Hall,...
A MAGA Preacher Condemned a Drag Queen. Then Her Album Topped the Christian Charts
Rolling Stone via Yahoo Canada News· 11 months agoIt’s never a good thing, per se, to get called out on Elon Musk’s Twitter.com by a person with more...
‘Don’t expect a blaze of glory’: The story of ITV’s ‘Plebs’ and how it ends
The Independent via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoAfter five series, the ancient Roman comedy is finally coming to an end with a feature-length...
Rob Harvilla, ‘90s Authority, Picks the Best Rock Year of the '90s
GQ via Yahoo News· 8 months agoIn a Q&A, the podcast host and 60 Songs that Explain the '90s author talks about context collapse,...
Opinion: The dance floor from 'Saturday Night Fever'? It's stayin' alive
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 1 month agoMy high school friends and I played in a band at the club that featured that disco icon. It's up for...
A Wham! Doc as Fun and Frothy as ’80s Pop
The Daily Beast via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoNetflixDecades before the term “poptimism” was coined and critics were hailing Carly Rae Jepsen and Charli XCX as geniuses, George Michael was one of pop...
How 2-Tone brought new ideas about race and culture to young people beyond the inner cities
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoThough it seemed like music for the inner cities, 2-Tone sought to take its message of inclusion to young people in less racially mixed small towns and rural areas too.
Olivia Colman would have been 'rather cross' if anyone else got her role in Empire of Light
Entertainment Weekly via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoDirector Sam Mendes' '80s-set drama Empire of Light (out tomorrow) stars Olivia Colman as a theater...