Michael Jackson. Madonna. Prince. Every year has good music, but somehow 1984 reached an apex of pop excellence. In a wide-ranging new book, Michaelangelo Matos examines how the magic happened.

Mary Lucia talks about a docu-series from TPT Originals that's all about the Twin Cities' hardcore-music scene in the early 1980s.

Breakdancing is now an official Olympic sport! So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that you can breakdance to?

Somewhere around 1990, when I was a teenager, I picked up a used copy of Bruce Springsteen’s classic five-LP set Live/1975-85. I knew the Born in the U.S.A. hits, and I was ready to take a deeper dive into the Boss’s oeuvre. I put on side one track one (“Thunder Road”), turned off the lights in my bedroom,…

Today we are remembering John Lennon, who was shot and killed on this day in 1980. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what Lennon covers do you want to hear -- both Beatles and solo?

Host Mary Lucia shares her favorite songs of 2020.

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.