Bob Dylan has worked out a deal with Universal Music Publishing Group to sell his entire catalogue of 600 songs. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, let's take a walk through this catalogue.

“Hey man,” Steve Brantseg remembers saying to Curtiss A in the mid-1980s. “I know all those Beatles songs. If you’ve got space for another guitar player, I’d love to do it.” Three and a half decades later, and 40 years since Curtiss A’s spontaneous original tribute concert on the day John Lennon died, Brantseg (also…

Bob Dylan, the boy born in Duluth who went on to create what the New York Times calls “one of the music world’s ultimate jewels” and the Associated Press calls “rock ‘n’ roll’s holy grail” has sold that jewel, that grail, for an estimated $300 million. In what the music world is calling a “blockbuster…

It's been nine months since most of us have seen a live concert. Virtual concerts are all well and good, but there is nothing like the real thing. In 2018, Margo Price triumphed at her homecoming residency at country music's mother church, the Ryman Auditorium, in Nashville. I sure would have loved to have attended one of them. Thankfully the shows were documented.

Jill will be joined by John Munson today to talk about the New Standards new Holiday Show album. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear for Munson Love Time?

Leah Ottman, a Minneapolis musician who performed under the name LOTT, passed away at the age of 33 on Wednesday. Her cause of death has not been made public. LOTT debuted as a solo artist in 2014, releasing the single “Parking On The Grass” via Homestead Records. LOTT Music · Parking On The Grass In…

Right now we’re all making our best-of-2020 playlists and checking them twice (have you cast your votes in The Current’s Top 89 poll yet?). Do you ever go back and actually listen to the best-of playlists you made in prior years? Every time I do, I’m reminded of some amazing Minnesota songs from those years.…

Just as we're heading into the season when we'll hear the Pogues' classic song, 'Fairytale of New York,' a new documentary about the Pogues' Shane MacGowan has released. 'Its a beautiful film; it's an intense film,' Mary Lucia says.

The end of the year is upon us, and that means it's time to reflect on your favorite music of 2020. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, we're going to treat you to Jill's top 10 songs of 2020. In the meantime, let us know what your top 10 picks are in the comments.

'I think if there's any person who can still bring this country together,' my aunt said on a recent family Zoom, 'it's Dolly Parton.'