As the 2014 Halloweekend approaches, the Twin Cities will be crawling with shows for every ghoul and boy. Whether you’re seeking spooktacular celebrations or refuge from incessant trick-or-treaters, there are plenty of options to make this a festive Friday night. Halloween Party & Costume Contest First Avenue, Minneapolis 8:00 p.m., $5 advance/$10 day of show/$15…

The Supremes hit no. 1, Dylan came back to Minnesota, and The Beach Boys felt some good vibrations Today in Music History.

Last week Lizzo performed "Bus Passes and Happy Meals" on the Late Show with David Letterman. Her big TV date with Letterman might have helped her and Caroline Smith climb to #1!

“Don a henley and take it easy,” recommended the Duluth Trading Co. in a recent e-mail advertisement touting its henley shirts. Maybe Don Henley hears a lot of henley jokes, because he was not amused by this one: he’s suing the company for “damages and other appropriate relief.” He’s also demanding the company stop making…

The Minnesota Music Coalition’s Caravan du Nord is trekking across our great state once again beginning Sept. 26. This traveling showcase of Minnesota musicians will embark on a journey though Austin, Detroit Lakes, Red Wing, Faribault, and Duluth. Historic theaters in each city will host music artists for full-day slates of performances, workshops, and community engagement. The lineup…

This spring, Trampled by Turtles finalized plans to host a new music festival, featuring a hand-picked lineup of nine local and national acts, headlined by the Duluth folk-rockers themselves. Months later, on Saturday, Sept. 20, the fledgling Festival Palomino finally saw daylight…and storm clouds and lightning and wind. Despite challenging weather that revealed the venue’s Achilles’s…

On the last day of the Great Minnesota Get-Together, Haley Bonar played a few songs off her latest album, Last War, and chatted with Mark Wheat during a live broadcast from the MPR booth.

Belle & Sebastian front man Stuart Murdoch has made his directorial debut with the film 'God Help The Girl'. The Sound Unseen Festival is presenting the movie's Midwestern premiere Thursday at a screening at the McNally Smith School of Music in St Paul. It's an appropriate site because at its heart Murdoch, said, the film is about music. MPR's Euan Kerr recently spoke to Murdoch about it.

In this flavor-of-the-moment era of YouTube, Twitter, and TV singing competitions, it seems that artists become big overnight and are oftentimes cast aside by morning. Most don’t ever even claim 15 minutes of fame—it’s more like five minutes, at best. It’s nice to see Trampled By Turtles, then, in the enviable position of reaching a…

The King hung out with The Beatles, Robert Plant went solo, and Bob Dylan released Highway 61 Revisited.