Our staff's favorite songs from a year that confirmed that hip-hop and R&B were now at top 40's center, but also had plenty ...

A new book by Miloš Hroch traces the early 1990s shoegaze music scene in this country, when Czech bands made a splash internationally for perhaps the only time.

To kick things off, the answer to your burning question is “yes”: My Bloody Valentine’s moniker was borrowed from the mediocre 1981 Canadian slasher film about a killer in miner gear who comes out to ...