On her third studio album, Adele returns to her roots as a vocalist whose talent resides in heartfelt ballads and saccharine love songs. This is an album for her true fans.

Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme of Eagles of Death Metal have talked with Vice for their first interview since the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, which included an attack by gunmen at the band’s Le Bataclan performance. The full interview will be released this week; in a brief excerpt released this weekend, Hughes talks about fans who…

An album getting a lot of attention today is Adele's latest, '25'. Adele is one of music's great singers. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that feature great vocal performances? Send us your requests.

Happy Friday! Here’s a look at what’s shaking on the visual side of the Minnesota music scene this week, with a look at some of the best new videos and projects to pop up on the internet over the past few days. Gramma’s Boyfriend light up With their excellent full-length, Perm, out now, Gramma’s Boyfriend…

A movie theater in St. Michael, Minn. is being transformed into the newest music venue in the West Metro. Le Musique Room is built into one of the 15 theaters — theater 15 to be exact — of the St. Michael Cinema. The venue is promising incredible sound, lighting, and visuals along with Parisian design elements. According to Greg Armstrong…

When I agreed to review Beautiful — The Carole King Musical, I was mostly excited, but a bit uncertain that I was the right person for the task. I was not alive during King’s songwriting heyday with Gerry Goffin, when their compositions climbed the Billboard charts throughout the better part of the 1960s. I was not alive…

A new memoir by Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein is a must-read, says Andrea Swensson.

Adele‘s new album 25 hits stores on Friday, in what may possibly become the biggest record launch in music history — as least in terms of immediate sales. The current record for sales in a single week is held by *NSYNC, who moved 2.4 million copies of No Strings Attached during the first week it was available, in 2000; projections are for 25 to…

Carly Simon revealed this week that the second verse of her 1972 hit, 'You're So Vain,' is indeed about Warren Beatty. So for today's Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that are about or that name-check celebrities? Send us your requests.

Just when we think we know what we’ve come to expect from the Pines — the title and album art for their new album, Above the Prairie, just might be the Pinesiest thing they’ve released so far — or consider brushing them off as another in a long string of Americana bands, they put out…