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Explore Canadian Music History Online with New National Music Centre Collection Archive

Calgary’s National Music Centre (NMC) has launched a new online platform in celebration of Canada 150, allowing fans to browse

A band like U2 has an incredible history of touring. They’ve been a lot of places and it is difficult

With Rdio about to disappear and Songza soon to be wholly absorbed by Google Play Music, Spotify is looking more

The BBC recently debuted this series on the history of music recording. It’s pretty damn cool. Episode 1: Sound of

If you’re of a certain vintage, you’ll remember what a shock to the system the Sony Walkman was. While it

For years, Canadians did a really lousy job of documenting this country’s music history. That, however, began to turn around

Black metal: church burnings, Satan worship, murder, ritual torture, suicide. Who wouldn’t want some of that? Metal Injection offers this

There has been a long held idea that music came to be around 40,000 years ago with the age of

[Correspondent Juliette Jagger was dispatched to cover what really is a very remarkable Canadian festival. More people need to know

I don’t think any of us would be caught dead in public with an old-school Sony Walkman these days (ironic

If you’re a hardcore U2 fan, you’ll love this SoundCloud page that features super-early interviews with U2. It includes this