June 5, 2026

What musical genre saw a global epicenter in Chicago and produced the band Fiction Factory in Perth?

A Jazz
B New wave music
C avant-garde music
D Core Sound

In the 1980s and 90s, Chicago was a global center for house and industrial music and also embraced new wave music, punk, and alternative rock. In Perth, Scotland, the new-wave band Fiction Factory formed and had a hit with '(Feels Like) Heaven' in 1984.

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