On 'House of Sugar,' the lo-fi pop musician's third full-length release on Domino, his often warped voice swarms and lingers over warm walls of stringed instruments and looped synths. The album's themes are murky: memory runs backwards, sugar is spooned, and answers are buried with sand.

National STEM Day focuses on helping kids advance in the fields of science, technology, engineering, art, and math. What songs would you like to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break that cover STEM fields?

Bo Weber, a Minnesota musician who’s also the founder of MusicInMinnesota.com, just wants to “Pump This Town.” Or, more precisely, these Twin Towns. So do dozens more artists, who all cameo in a new video for his song by that title. Weber took half a year to film the video, which functions as both a…

Cecilia Johnson, our regular Friday Five curator, is on vacation this week, and here’s what I’ve learned stepping in for her: there are way more great new music videos coming out every week in our fair Gopher State than we could ever fit into a five-track roundup. But a “Friday Fifteen” would be a little daunting,…

Joni Mitchell is 76 today, so we thought we'd celebrate by hearing some of her songs. But let's get a little creative with this one. What songs would you like to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break that are covers of Joni Mitchell songs?

The live hip-hop album features a selection of Dessa's hip hop work with a group of vocalists and the full Minnesota Orchestra behind her. This years-long collaboration and cross-genre learning results in 'Sound the Bells' and some interesting marketing challenges.

Minneapolis singer-songwriter Andy Cook shares an account of his recent adventure in New York City. Making music and running a marathon have a lot in common, it turns out. Immense amounts of time and effort put into preparation; the ebbs and flows of anxiety and excitement along the way; and then the moment it all…

We've done this one before but the trend seems to be returning - what songs do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break where another musician or band is referenced in the title?

'Jack & the Ghost' is a new picture book written by Poling, well-known to his fellow Minnesotans as a co-founder of the Suburbs and the New Standards. Music fans might also recognize the name of the book's illustrator Lucy Michell...but wait, isn't that last name missing an E? It would be if we were talking about Lucy Michelle of the Velvet Lapelles and Little Fevers, but in this case we're talking about Lucy Michell the visual artist. (Yes, they're the same person.)

Alexander O'Connor, aka Rex Orange County, shares insights into his career thus far. 'You are something and you make a choice in your life, like, 'This is going to be great' -- and then it happens, and you're kind of like, 'This is more stressful than I imagined.'