Beach House have announced a follow-up to their new album Depression Cherry. You won’t have to wait long: Thank Your Lucky Stars is being released next Friday. (Pitchfork) We are very excited, it's an album being released the way we want. It's not a companion to depression cherry or a surprise or b-sides — Beach House (@BeaccchHoussse)…

My guest on today’s show is Adam Levy, who you likely recognize from his work leading the Honeydogs, Liminal Phase, And the Professors, and the band he started with his two daughters, Ava and Esther, which is called the Bunny Clogs. Or maybe you’ve seen him around town, where he’s worked as an educator, mentor,…

A huge hot-air balloon festival is underway in New Mexico this week. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention flight, flying or floating? Send us your requests.

Local and national artists including the Flaming Lips, Sharon Van Etten, Astronautalis, and Chris Mars are featured on a new Donovan tribute compilation from local record label Rock the Cause. The album, to be released on Oct. 16, raises funds to support families battling Huntington’s disease, a genetic disease that affects neurons in the brain. 69-year-old…

The gender-bending musician and supermodel discusses how her past and her personality inform her new book, I'll Never Write My Memoirs.

Bob Dylan has granted a rare televised interview about his lyrics and themes. The fine print: it’s a very short interview, with a talking computer, in an ad for IBM. (News Cut) Yoko Ono gathered over 2,000 people in New York’s Central Park to honor John Lennon‘s upcoming 75th birthday. That made for a pretty big…

Late last spring I got a job as an usher at Northrop, the newly refurbished concert hall at the heart of the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities campus. The majestic architecture and the famous acts who play the venue had always intrigued me, and working as an usher seemed like the perfect way to get to know both…

It's #MPRBooksDay during our Member Drive, and it turns out there are a lot of musical artists who have had a turn at writing books. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear by musicians who are also authors? Send us your requests.

At the end of May, MSU-Mankato band Navigating North drove through the night to North Carolina and recorded an entire EP, all in about 48 hours. The members of the band—Hailey Johnson, Josiah Jorgensen, and Jay Seaser—originally met as part of a worship team in the MSU campus ministry, the Navigators. The band happened organically, says Seaser. “We just started jamming…

Hozier has been sparring with singer-songwriter Chilly Gonzales, who pointed out similarities between Hozier’s 2013 hit “Take Me to Church” and the 2011 song “How Come You Never Go There” by Feist—a single that Gonzales played piano on. Hozier threatened to sue Gonzales for implying that he plagiarized the song; Gonzales apologized, and Hozier now says “there are no hard feelings…