Johnny Marr and The Smiths were always indebted to the sounds of their native Manchester, and that extended to the city's ...

It all started in 1960s Hitsville, USA - the birthplace of Motown. The soul explosion took off around the world, but then everything went quiet and it seemed as though it had dropped off the radar.

“Northern Soul” drops a standard, rowdy, coming-of-age story into a very specific time and cultural movement that most Americans are unaware of, even though it was fueled by American music. In the ...

A teenager struggling to make friends because of his anxiety says he has found a home on the Northern Soul dancefloor. Fourteen-year-old Keiven, from Sheffield, who has ADHD and dyslexia, discovered ...

The working-class “Northern Soul” milieu of England’s 1970s, which seeded much of U.K. music and culture, is recreated in Elaine Constantine’s long-aborning first feature. Her slender story about a ...

This audio is no longer available. It's been 40 years since the first all-night R&B party at the Wigan Casino nightclub outside Manchester, England. The doors didn't open until 2 a.m., and its ...

The electrifying “Northern Soul” captures the 1970s British club scene of the same name with ethnographic detail and ebullient style. Writer-director Elaine Constantine lived this experience herself, ...

This is a reprint of our review from the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. “Northern Soul” bursts into life when John and Matt start DJing together and ponder their own club space. Soon, ...

Pop culture can be as forbidding as it is inviting, particularly in areas that invite geeky obsession: The more devotion a genre or series or subculture inspires, the easier it is for the uninitiated ...

England's "Northern Soul" music scene of the 1970s is re-created in Elaine Constantine's long-aborning first feature. The working-class “Northern Soul” milieu of England’s 1970s, which seeded much of ...