Plus: The Current’s Top 89 year-end staff lists, a contrary “Closing Time” reading, and plenty more.

Managing director David Safar shares his favorite songs of 2021.

The longtime Prince associate and leader of the Jellybean Johnson Experience hopes to launch the effort in North Minneapolis.

The pace of new Minnesota music isn’t slacking as we batten down for holidays at home.

With her ferocious voice and a cutting sense of humor, singer and guitarist Sale — who died in September — helped Delta 5 craft a high-voltage sound that still rings true today.

This week’s offering of new songs is a playlist of brand-new holiday songs from artists you love.

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that embody the Minneapolis Sound?

Musicians tend to disdain genre labels, but critics are fascinated by them - and Kelefa Sanneh is no exception.

Mary Lucia discusses the film “Passing," now streaming on Netflix and starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga, and directed by Rebecca Hall.

The Chart Show’s Hall of Fame opens the gates this week to Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, The War on Drugs, and Yola.