Kendrick Lamar’s new album is a soundtrack. Black Panther: The Album was curated by Lamar, who performs on five of the 14 tracks. In Ryan Coogler’s movie, which opens Friday, music from Lamar’s album is artfully blended with music by Ludwig Göransson, whose orchestral score incorporates musicians recorded in Senegal and South Africa. The way Lamar’s…

Usually, audience members at concerts play a passive role. Crowds gather to enjoy music and cheer the performers on. But for local artist Charles Price, that is not the case. As of recently, Price has adopted a hobby of sketching musicians from the crowd as they entertain onstage. It all started around 2008, when Price…

It’s been a little less than a year since we first wrote about the Happy Children, and quite a bit has changed for the band since then. They have a new lineup, a new album, and, soon, a new book. 2017 proved to be a tumultuous year for the band. Their founding members, Caleb Hinz…

The Twin Cities' town troubadour is back. jeremy messersmith shares single "Purple Hearts" in anticipation of 'Late Stage Capitalism,' which is due out March 9, 2018.

Normally Sean McPherson takes care of listener requests on Saturday nights but today we're creeping on his format since it's Valentine's Day. So for today's Coffee Break, what song requests do you have, and who do you want to dedicate them to?

For Valentine's Day, our Rock and Roll Book Club spotlights a book subtitled, 'The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World.'

Today is Mardi Gras - also called Shrove Tuesday or Fat Tuesday. In the United States, the city of New Orleans has become practically synonymous with Mardi Gras, marked by parades, parties, costumes and lots of music. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that have a New Orleans flavor?

It’s easy enough to sound sweet. Beautiful voices grace an inventory of folk projects, especially those fronted by women; you’ll see adjectives like “dulcet” and “mellifluous” used to describe their voices, with sugar baked right into the words. But sweetness sounds best up against a snarl — some complexity and tension. Lena Elizabeth, part of…

Our friend Looch has been out sick recently. She shares this message with listeners as she recovers from a recent appendectomy.

This weekend 17-year-old Red Gerard won the U.S.'s first gold medal of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in an amazing snowboarding slopestyle final run. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention the word "red"?