Today's top music news stories include the announcement of a Prince-inspired cookbook, the death of a Crystals singer, and Neil Young taking on Google.

Sheila E. and fDeluxe will perform at Paisley Park for Celebration 2018 this spring, the venue announced this morning. Paisley Park also announced a list of guest speakers — including the likes of photographer Steve Parke, the Time’s Jellybean Johnson, and close Prince confidante Kirk Johnson. The three-day event, scheduled for April 19-22, is the…

Watch video of Dave Rusan talking about he got the assignment to design and build a very special guitar for Prince, seen in the 'Purple Rain' film and onstage at Prince's live shows. Rusan also describes how the guitar is made, and what having built this special guitar means to him today.

Kendrick Lamar’s new album is a soundtrack. Black Panther: The Album was curated by Lamar, who performs on five of the 14 tracks. In Ryan Coogler’s movie, which opens Friday, music from Lamar’s album is artfully blended with music by Ludwig Göransson, whose orchestral score incorporates musicians recorded in Senegal and South Africa. The way Lamar’s…

Chris Moon, who co-wrote 'Soft and Wet' with Prince, is selling his co-ownership of the 1978 song. The asking price: $490,000.

Dosh just sent “some random e-mails to friends,” he remembers, asking them to sing the songs of Mister Rogers. “Just record them into your cell phone, make it kind of low-fi, don’t even worry about going into the studio. Just send it to me and then I’ll sort of do my thing with it. I’ll…

When listeners hear the name Miles Davis, they might think of some of his early works like Kind of Blue and Birth of the Cool, but those albums were just the beginning. Even as a young musician, Davis was always ahead of his time. He never liked to look back on the past and was…

After last night, many people can say that they watched Justin Timberlake’s halftime performance during the Super Bowl from the comfort of their own couch. Many fewer can say that they had an on-field experience. Nathan Bahr was one of those lucky few, but it was a privilege that he definitely worked for. Bahr, a…

This April, Prince will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Minnesota — an honor that was being planned prior to his tragically premature death on April 21, 2016. The posthumous presentation will take place in conjunction with “Prince from Minneapolis,” a symposium taking place at the university from April 16-18. The symposium announced…

A lot of people were fooled — including plenty of locals. After Justin Timberlake duetted with a virtual Prince during last night’s Super Bowl halftime show, an overhead shot of U.S. Bank Stadium seemed to show purple lights blinking on all around the stadium, culminating in a giant Love Symbol ringing the stadium. Was it…