Welcome to the residency bonanza of January 2018! We made it to the New Year, and with its first month comes a slew of residencies: weekly shows helmed by locals Metasota, jeremy messersmith, Charlie Parr, the Cactus Blossoms, and Andrew Broder. We’ll be posting photos and a brief recap of several of the series’ first nights. jeremy…

“It’s a difficult and trying time,” says Minneapolis musician Andrew Broder, explaining what motived him to begin his Residency for Music and Action event series. “I think people are kind of waking up and realizing that our new part-time job is giving way more of a s–t than we did before.” The event series, curated…

At least eight acts from Minnesota are heading to SXSW this March. Aero Flynn and Now, Now were two of the first acts announced as performers at the Austin festival. Since that announcement, several more local acts have been added: Low, Kristoff Krane, BdotCroc, Nadine, Moodie Black, and Step Rockets. The festival, which runs from March…

Rick Hall - record producer, songwriter, music publisher, and musician, has passed away at the age of 85. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear from artists influenced by Rick Hall?

A new book about Joni Mitchell is less a biography than an extended appreciation - and there's much for author David Yaffe to appreciate.

It's a new year, the Oake & Riley band is back together, and we want to hear a whole new set of music for today's Coffee Break. So tell us - what songs do you want to hear that allude to some sort of fresh start, or a resolution to do something or to not to something?

On a frigid New Year’s Eve, music fans braved the cold to visit Treehouse Records one last time. The closing of the Minneapolis shop has left the corner of 26th and Lyndale without a record store for the first time in more than four decades. What started out as North Country Music in 1972 became Oar…

On Feb. 2, Justin Timberlake will drop a new album with a theme that seems all too apt for the location and timing of his performance at the Super Bowl two days later. Man of the Woods “is really inspired by my son, my wife, my family, but more so than any other album I’ve ever…

Welcome to the residency bonanza of January 2018! We made it to the New Year, and with its first month comes a slew of residencies: weekly shows helmed by locals including jeremy messersmith, Charlie Parr, the Cactus Blossoms, and Andrew Broder. We’ll be posting photos and a brief recap of each of the series’ first…

2016 took the lives of many of our favorite musicians, and 2017 wasn't so nice either. In the second installment of this 2-day Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear from musicians that died in 2017?