If you’re anything like me, chances are that your family doesn’t try to get you any music-related gifts for Christmas out of fear that you’ve either got everything you want already — or they’re so oblivious about music that they don’t know where to begin. If you’re lucky, you might end up with some gift cards…

In recent days on Twitter, Prince has been dropping teasing mentions of something happening on Jan. 21. Now, his plans have been revealed: he’s hosting a “gala event” at Paisley Park, with “music” promised — apparently a preview of his postponed Piano & a Microphone tour. Prince’s Piano & a Microphone tour — with Prince…

This year’s Coachella lineup has been announced, and — no surprise, after weeks of media reports — two of the headliners will be a reunited Guns N’ Roses (featuring both Axl Rose and Slash) and a reunited LCD Soundsystem. Taylor Swift’s beau — you may also know him by his stage name, Calvin Harris — will…

Lemmy Kilmister, the late Motörhead frontman, was a regular at the Rainbow Bar & Grill in Los Angeles — which so appreciated him that proprietor Mikael Maglieri brought Lemmy’s favorite video game machine over to the ailing rocker’s house in Lemmy’s final days. Now, the Rainbow is planning a 12-hour memorial service on Jan. 9 — and Lemmy’s fans are…

It's officially 2016. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, we want to get personal. What songs do you want to hear that represent the change you want to make in your life?

Perhaps the hardest part of grieving is accepting that someone who is lost is never coming back. As Mankato indie pop quartet Good Night Gold Dust put it on their newest single “Waves” off their latest self-titled EP, “I still feel you here.” Their first studio EP, produced by Brett Bullion (Bad Bad Hats, Caroline…

It’s taken me a long time to get here, so I’ll do my best to keep my voice from shaking as I say this: My name is Andrea, and I’m a gatekeeper. That’s right. I keep the gates. I make the tastes. Sometimes I lord over people, shoving my opinions down their unsuspecting gullets. Sometimes…

For their fourth studio album, Cage the Elephant recruited producer Dan Auerbach, creating an album the veers from sonic spontaneity to taut spaciousness to lyrical astuteness. These intimate and powerful songs rock -- and Cage the Elephant deliver them with moxie.

On New Year’s Eve in Los Angeles, Mötley Crüe played what was billed as their final show ever — and it included an awkward moment for drummer Tommy Lee. As midnight approached, a roller coaster built to carry Lee and his drum kit high above the crowd got stuck, leaving Lee suspended upside down. The surprised drummer eventually climbed down the roller…

Time has a funny way of providing us with perspectives we didn’t even know we needed, like a telephoto lens slowly zooming outward until the entire picture comes into view. Water droplets may look like tears when their big fat beads are streaking across our entire view, but if we take a step back we…