CBS Radio launched the first national show about rock 'n' roll; the proto-Stones met at a blues club; Feist cleaned up at the Juno Awards; and Prince released his debut album "For You", Today in Music History.

Minnesota music legend Prince died on April 21, 2016. There are many events taking place across the Twin Cities to honor the Purple One surrounding April 21, 2017 — as people here and around the world will be thinking of Prince and celebrating his legacy. Listen for special programming on The Current (both on-air and online),…

In the wake of Prince’s death last April 21, fans from around the world made their way to Paisley Park to pay their respects — in many cases, with notes and memorials they affixed to the fence surrounding Prince’s Chanhassen studio. Paisley Park collected those items and brought them into its permanent collection, and when the…

Lenny Kravitz will pay tribute to Prince with a musical performance at the April 7 induction ceremony for this year’s class at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rolling Stone reports. The ceremony, which will take place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, will see the induction of Electric Light Orchestra, Journey, Tupac Shakur,…

“I will talk your ear off,” Liv Warfield warned me when I got on the phone with her. A vocalist in Prince’s New Power Generation and co-leader of rock/R&B band Roadcase Royale, Warfield met Prince in 2008 and toured on and off with him until his passing in 2016. She’s released two solo albums, the second…

“The last time I was here, I was with P,” Shelby J. tells me on the Dakota Jazz Club’s balcony, looking me in the eye. “We were walking out, and he made me promise — I promised him I would play here.” Her gaze hops down to the table and back up to me. “Last…

Last night, the Dakota Jazz Club had two special shows in store for Prince fans. Three artists who worked with him for lengthy periods — Liv Warfield, Shelby J., and Judith Hill — united at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. to share their new music and some old favorites, working under the name Love 4…

“You could have been anywhere tonight,” said André Cymone onstage at Lady Bird Lake. “There’s a lot going on. But y’all are here, and we’re gonna have some f—ing fun!” To say there were a few other things happening was an understatement: it was Friday night at SXSW, one of the biggest annual music events in the…

It was one year ago today that 236 people attending a sold-out tribute to Ray Charles at the Chanhassen Dinner Theatres got the surprise of a lifetime: Midway through the song “Let the Good Times Roll,” the city’s most famous resident, Prince, stepped out of the wings and onto the side of the stage to…

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