Before Beatlemania, The Beatles’ grueling Hamburg residency forged their sound and stage power and set the stage for their rise to rock royalty.

With a dash of novelty and a lot of pop appeal, certain songs in the early 1960s resonated way more with the fun-loving and heartbroken teens of the era than the adults of the time. Let’s look at a ...

The 1960s produced timeless music with remarkable stress-reducing qualities. Songs with slower tempos, gentle melodies, and soothing harmonies can lower heart rate and reduce cortisol levels. These ...

The music of 'Dhurandhar' is a hit, especially its modern qawaali, 'Ishq Jalakar (Karavaan)'. This song is a reimagining of a 1960s qawaali composed by Hrithik Roshan's grandfather, Roshan Lal, with ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

UK-based Ghanaian gospel musician and health professional, Matilda Agyemang, celebrated her birthday in style with the release of two powerful worship singles under Magyingo Entertainment. On 27th ...

Based on the treasured Roald Dahl novel about an extraordinary young girl who decides to fight back against the domineering adults in her life, including her parents and her school’s headmistress ...

Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter. Vancouver punk band Kill Matilda last played in Vancouver in 2018, shortly after ...

The Matilda the Musical Original Cast features an ensemble of talented performers, with Bethany Dixon portraying Matilda’s rebellious spirit. The cast brings Tim Minchin’s witty lyrics and Dennis ...

The original Broadway cast of Matilda the Musical debuted in 2013 at the Shubert Theatre. Four young actresses—Sophia Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon, and Milly Shapiro—shared the lead role of ...

1960s music was almost as popular in the 1980s as it was in the 1960s. During the Reagan years, 1960s songs like The Beatles’ “I Saw Her Standing There” and Petula Clark’s “Downtown” came back with a ...

These sad country songs are stone-cold classics. In the 1960s, heartbreak looked a little different than it does today: There were no breakups over text or email, no obsessively scrolling through your ...