Aside from all the other superlatives, the State Fair is Minnesota’s largest annual music festival — and most of the live performances are free with Fair admission. For the biggest icons (say, Meghan Kreidler and Kevin Costner), Grandstand performances understandably come with an extra ticket charge. If you’re going to the fair this year, be…

Ani DiFranco joins Jill Riley from The Current to talk about the making of her new record, 'Revolutionary Love,' as well as her recent memoir 'No Walls and the Recurring Dream'.

Happy birthday to one of the most iconic voices in rock, Robert Plant! For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what iconic voices do you want to hear?

The Friday Five isn’t a weekly feature any more, but we bring it back on special occasions — like today, marking the approaching end of a summer season that’s produced more than its share of memorable Minnesota music videos. Ka Lia Universe- “I’ve Been Thankin'” Ka Lia Universe is one of the more than 100…

Today is John Deacon's birthday, one of the great bass players of our time. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what great bass lines do you want to hear?

In her new history of Daptone Records, Jessica Lipsky explains how the label she describes as 'punk soul' became the center of a movement that brought vintage sounds to newfound prominence across the musical landscape.

Water Is Life, the festival held at Bayfront Festival Park in Duluth by Honor the Earth (Winona LaDuke’s arts-associated advocacy group), was about more than music. Ten hours of music; Anishinaabe traditional ceremony; teaching; passionate statements from Native artists and non-Native allies; and performance marked the day. The 5,000 participants danced, sweated in the 90-degree…

Unlike TV's Partridges, however, it wasn't all happy bus trips, witty comebacks and canned laughter for the Cowsills. In addition to a toxic father figure, 'there's tragedy upon tragedy upon tragedy,' Mary says.

Today is National Bad Poetry Day, and sometimes song lyrics can be like poetry. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what good songs with bad lyrics do you want to hear?

Today is Phoebe Bridgers 27th brithday! For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what Phoebe Bridgers songs, collaborations, and covers do you want to hear?