Atmosphere. Phantogram. The xx. Ryan Adams, Bryan Ferry, At the Drive-In, and now, Belle and Sebastian. It’s not an eclectic new festival line-up or the contents of a mixtape; it’s a sampling of the bands booked at the Twin Cities’s newest venue. The Palace Theatre, which is soon to reopen in St. Paul after decades of…

Tomorrow, March 8, the Hook & Ladder will be hosting a special benefit concert for Libby Johnson, a beloved friend of many in the Minnesota music community. The benefit is a labor of love by those close to Johnson, in an attempt to make life for her and her family easier as she undergoes cancer…

After a weekend of lovely Minnesota weather, strong winds are on tap for much of the state tonight and Tuesday, with gusts over 40 mph expected. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs that mention wind or have wind sound effects do you want to hear?

Fluctuating between soulful love ballads, blues standards, hip-hop flavored reflections about his hometown, and funkified gospels, Rag'n'Bone Man's debut full-length album, 'Human,' pulls from several previous releases to showcase Graham's powerful and spirited voice.

Friends and family packed the Turf Club on Saturday night, eager to see an all-local bill comprising jazz/neo-soul band Ayvah, singer/songwriter J.E. Sunde, and rock group Tabah. Tabah, who performed at the Local Show’s Artists to Watch showcase last August, played their new album Symmetry Somewhere in full. The new music sounded best when it let Cecelia…

We're getting excited for the Rock the Cradle pop up event on Sunday at the Fitzgerald featuring Lisa Loeb! So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that both kids and their adults love?

After the Grammys last month, metalheads around the world were shaking their heads in bemusement at the fact that to celebrate Megadeth’s first-ever Grammy, the house band played “Master of Puppets,” a song by their rivals Metallica. That was just one of several strange musical choices, though, at the Premiere Ceremony — the live-streamed ceremony…

J. Plaza with Nazeem & Spencer Joles, “Surprise MF’er” Both J. Plaza and Nazeem & Spencer Joles made the Soundset line-up this year. To celebrate, they dropped a hard-hitting yet graceful new song. All three MCs deliver top-of-the-line verses; all three get directing credits; Liban Mahamoud shot the video, and Topper Atwood produced the song. Graveyard…

SXSW has announced two free outdoor shows, one of which will be a Prince tribute featuring Wyclef Jean and two of Prince’s closest musical collaborators: André Cymone and Dez Dickerson. On Friday, March 17, the three will be joined by guitarist Micki Free (formerly of “Second Time Around” hitmakers Shalamar) and “more special guests TBA”…

It's the last day of the member drive, so what songs that prominently feature "stop" in the lyrics would you like to hear?