Elvis performed at a benefit gig in Hawaii, then took eight years off; Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder was pulled from the sea after a scary encounter in a riptide; Bono was a character witness for Peter Buck; and Prince took home an Oscar for the music of 'Purple Rain', Today in Music History.

On a snowy Sunday night when most Minnesotans were glad for the excuse to snuggle up and stay off the roads, Prince invited a handful of journalists and a few dozen die-hard fans out to Paisley Park to dance, watch a screening of Oz the Great and Powerful set to funk music, and eventually take in a short…

Prince is kicking off his “Hit & Run” tour in Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday, and while no further stops have yet been announced, he and his band 3RDEYEGIRL are showing Louisville a lot of love. They’ve added two Sunday shows to the originally announced pair of Saturday shows, for a total of four shows this weekend. They also gave a…

Prince and 3RDEYEGIRL have announced that they’re heading out on tour across America…but the stops won’t be announced until days in advance. All we know so far is that the tour will begin in Louisville, Kentucky (the home town of 3RDEYEGIRL drummer Hannah Ford) next Saturday, March 14. We don’t even know where Prince will be playing…

When Star Tribune reporter Libor Jany tweeted a photo of Prince‘s high school basketball team, he couldn’t have guessed it would go viral—after all, the photo was already published in the newspaper, in 1984. National blogs loved the rediscovered photo of an afro-sporting Prince in his Bryant Junior High days, though, and Jany got hundreds…

Tomorrow night, Feb. 26, Liv Warfield and the NPG Horns are set to play Jimmy Kimmel Live! Fans of Minnesota music, and of Prince specifically, are familiar with Warfield. The Prince protégé regularly joins Prince on stage, including at a recent Wall Street concert celebrating the 30th anniversary of Nike’s Jordan sneakers. Warfield got her start…

Thursday night kicked off Greater Twin Cities United Way’s 100th year with their Good for Generations centennial celebration. 3,000 volunteers representing over 450 companies attended the sold-out gala at the Minneapolis Convention Center for an evening of hors d’oeuvres, awards, and surprise musical guests. 2014 marked a successful year for Minnesota’s volunteer community, with the state…

Here’s a sentence you don’t get to type very often: if anyone had a wilder weekend than Prince, it was Paul McCartney. Both were in New York City over the holiday weekend—along with more than the usual contingent of A-list celebrities—to celebrate Saturday Night Live, Nike sneakers, and of course themselves. Prince got off to an…

When creating his musical mash-up series, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel knew he had to find someone stupendously talented and devilishly good-looking to perform with the sisters of Haim. Obviously, it had to be the legendary Morris Day, who joined the California trio on Kimmel’s show last night with the Time to perform the classic “Jungle Love.”…

Prince and 3RDEYEGIRL played a surprise two-hour show in London on Monday night. The private show, in support of the charity Autism Rocks, included 34 songs including “When Doves Cry,” “1999,” “Little Red Corvette,” “FUNKNROLL,” and “U KNOW.” (NME) Now, will he show up at the Grammys on Sunday—and if so, what will he do? No one…