Walt Groller’s parents gave him his first accordion when he was 4 years old. There was one problem, though. The boy played it so much that his mother became tired of hearing it and threw it down the ...

It's that month again: June. Moon. Spoon. Chicken dance. "We're doing the chicken dance like you wouldn't believe," says Jim Schwobel, tuba player with the New Austin Polka Band, which is called upon ...

Last night's college football game between the University of Michigan and Notre Dame was the final match-up between the longtime rivals to be played in Ann Arbor for a while, thanks to a looming ...

Stanley Mills, part of the prosperous Mills Music family publishing dynasty who popularized “The Chicken Dance” as a wedding and party staple, died Dec. 29 at a hospital in New Hyde Park, N.Y. He was ...

The 19th-century European immigrants to Wisconsin arrived with polkas ringing in their ears. The polka, a lively couples dance in 2/4 time, had developed from folk roots and became a European popular ...

Former members of hipster-leaning metal bands Guyana Punch Line and Antischism have formed Thank God. Based in Columbia, S.C., the band doles out spastic, art-damaged, brain-confusing post-hardcore ...

Last night's college football game between the University of Michigan and Notre Dame was the final match-up between the longtime rivals to be played in Ann Arbor for a while, thanks to a looming ...