'The band is heading in a new direction and it is time for me to move on,' Weiss writes.

It's the first day of July - and the first day of MPR's Water Month. This year we're celebrating getting outside on Minnesota's beautiful lakes and rivers and announcing a new app called "Outside in Minnesota". It makes it easy to get outdoors with weather updates, event listings, and how-to guides.

Adrianne Lenker, at her best, is almost without peer in contemporary American music, and U.F.O.F. is another striking showcase for her talents.

Rock the Garden is tomorrow and we're so excited we can hardly think about anything else. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that say "rock" in the title or chorus?

This week at the Current, we’re looking forward to Rock the Garden, the single-day fest we’ll put on this weekend with the Walker Art Center. So I thought Friday Five might as well reflect that today. Before you lather on the sunscreen, dig out your water bottles, and pull out your tickets (available here), you…

Minnesota musicians including Semisonic, the Jets, Judy Garland, and the Andrews Sisters likely had original master recordings destroyed in a 2008 Los Angeles studio fire that claimed a vast swath of historic tapes by artists ranging from jazz founders to ’90s rockers. Original recordings made in Minnesota by Janet Jackson and Nirvana may also have…

For this morning's Vinyl Tap pick, Jill brought in "Pammie's on a Bummer", a 7:45 song from 'Inner Views', Sonny Bono's 1967 solo album which took a decidedly psychedelic turn from his Sonny & Cher days. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear from artists or bands who swiftly changed genres at some point in their career?

As Joy Division's classic album 'Unknown Pleasures' turns 40, the band's biographer Jon Savage talked about the album and his memories of seeing the band during their too-brief career

What songs do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break that say "go"?

The job of a music publicist is, by design, unsung. Now, Jane Savidge sings her own song as one of the people who brought Britpop together in the '90s.