Today's top music news stories include a prospective Prince streaming deal, the latest from Paisley Park, and word that David Bowie considered writing fake Bob Dylan songs for a musical.

Visitors to Paisley Park can, at certain times, now record themselves singing in Prince's studio. The Current's Jill Riley and Brian Oake visited Paisley Park last week, and Jill laid down a take on 'Raspberry Beret.'

No, they’re not selling Paisley Park — and not the Purple Rain house either, but Prince’s estate is selling the land where Prince lived in a literal purple house during the Purple Rain era. That house was located on Kiowa Trail in Chanhassen, on Lake Riley. In the mid-80s, Prince moved to a larger house on Galpin Boulevard (also in…

Paisley Park has announced that this weekend’s film screening will feature live footage from Prince’s record-setting 2007 concert series at the O2 Arena in London. Footage from the Sept. 13 show, never publicly released, will screen from 9-11 p.m. this Saturday, Jan. 7. The 2007 London shows, 21 performances staged between Aug. 1 and Sept. 21,…

The Minnesota Historical Society has acquired a new artifact that documents a pivotal moment in Prince’s career: The year he signed his record deal with Warner Bros. and entered into a contract he would wrestle with for much of his career. Back in 1977, Prince Rogers Nelson was a rising star in the North Minneapolis…

In an hour-long special, MPR News host Tom Weber looks back on the year we lost Prince: his busy final months, the day of his tragic death, and the avalanche of tributes and celebrations that followed. What does 2017 have in store for Prince's legacy and estate?

Now that Paisley Park is hosting weekly dance parties and movie screenings, audiences will be able to see some rare, even previously unseen Prince films — as well as well-known classics like Sign ‘O’ the Times. This Saturday, fans will get to relive the 77th show of the the Purple One’s international “Welcome 2” tour.…

Lots of Prince news today - from stories shared by his friends to the latest developments in his estate.

I was walking through Manhattan recently, making my way up 5th Avenue to check out all the Christmas displays like a typical Midwestern tourist, when I looked up and realized something odd: I was standing at the foot of the Empire State Building, an instantly recognizable spire that I had been eyeing for blocks. But…

If you could buy stock in musical reputations, Stevie Nicks’s would have been a bargain investment 20, 10, even five years ago. In the ’70s, the behemoth popularity of Fleetwood Mac blinded a lot of too-cool-for-school critics to the fact that the band’s accessible and sonically pristine creations were underpinned by timeless songcraft, while Nicks’s…