Three new playlist picks coming right to you from Brian McCreath, director of production at GBH Music and host of CRB’s ...

German-based hard rock band Scorpions rose to fame in the 1980s with some of the most iconic songs in the genre's history.

Back in the USSR of the 1950s and 60s, hipsters, desperate for decadent rock ’n’ roll, cut illegal records using X-ray film.

In the history of space exploration, the Soviet Union achieved some remarkable feats, one of which was landing a spacecraft on Venus,something that seemed impossible given the harsh conditions of the ...

Popular artists “on the bone” included Ella Fitzgerald and Elvis Presley, whose jazz and rock ’n’ roll recordings, to the ears of many Soviet citizens, represented freedom and self-expression.

In the Soviet Union in the 1940s ... But anyone who could obtain a recording device could record music on pieces of X-ray film, and these old films could be obtained after hospitals threw them ...