“Dear Ms. Jackson,” wrote Bruce Springsteen, “Xabi has been out very late rocking & rolling. Please excuse him if he is tardy!” The nine-year-old attended the Boss’s Tuesday night concert in L.A., holding a sign that read BRUCE, I WILL BE LATE TO SCHOOL TOMORROW. PLEASE SIGN MY NOTE. Not only did Springsteen comply, he invited the…

For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear from bands that have a body part in the name?

The latest album from Lucius is a shinier, poppier, bigger version of the Lucius many of us fell in love with on 'Wildewoman'. 'Good Grief' is an album of power ballads, poppy R&B and a dash of Dusty Springfield-esque singing for balance.

British actor Jack Lowden has been cast as a young Morrissey in a forthcoming biopic. The film, titled Steven (Morrissey’s first name), will focus on the Smiths frontman’s early years in Manchester, and is slated to begin filming next month. (Billboard) SXSW scare A crowd at SXSW was sent running in panic after shots were fired into the air…

Rolling Stone is already calling it “one of the most anticipated memoirs in music history.” Prince has announced that he is writing a memoir. The book will be titled The Beautiful Ones — sharing the title of a memorable song from Purple Rain — and will be written in collaboration with Dan Piepenbring, who works as a Web…

Peter Guralnick's new book takes a detailed look at the story of one of the most important behind-the-scenes forces in rock history: Sun Records founder Sam Phillips.

Dusty Heart: “The Skipper and His Wife” Dusty Heart is the duo of Barbara Jean and Molly Dean. Presumably “Jean and Dean” was just too cute a name even for this enormously appealing duo, who hopped in a Lutsen ski gondola for this cover of Spider John Koerner’s “The Skipper and His Wife.” If you…

Who’s on the Grateful Dead tribute album produced by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National? Well, let’s see, there’s Bob Weir, Wilco, the Flaming Lips, Justin Vernon, Jim James, Jenny Lewis, Mumford & Sons, Tunde Adebimpe, Courtney Barnett, Stephen Malkmus…the list goes on and on. The 59-song, five-disc, six-hour album, Day of the Dead, will be released on May 20, and many of the artists will perform a set of…

In the 1940s, Las Hermanas Rangel were a popular Mexican-American music group in St. Paul’s West Side, known for their romantic ballads and fast-paced corridos. The girls started performing after a parishioner at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church heard them sing in the choir, and offered to pay for the girls’ vocal lessons, said Genevieve Rangel, 83, adding that she…

When Adele saw a couple get engaged during her performance of Bob Dylan’s “To Make You Feel My Love” at her Tuesday night show in London, she interrupted the song and invited the happy pair to join her onstage for a congratulatory hug. The couple said they’ve been together for 12 years — “longer than I’ve been…