Foo Fighters say that they were invited by the Television Academy to become “the first ever rock band on the Emmys,” playing a track from their documentary series Sonic Highways. Fox, however, “refused to allow the band to play a full song from the Emmy-winning Sonic Highways,” according to the band, who then opted not to…

It would take you a while, but it would be worth it. I guarantee that if you went out to a show in the Twin Cities every night and asked every person you ran into if they knew him, you could count up to 100 and not find a single one that would have a bad thing to…

Following last night's prime-time Emmy Awards, a lot of people are talking about television this morning. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention television or TV shows? Send us your requests.

On Sunday afternoon at Coffman Memorial Union, several Vietnamese/Asian-American advocates met to plan a demonstration against the Canadian post-punk band Viet Cong, who are playing a show on Thursday night at the 7th Street Entry. The band had just announced plans to change their name—but with the name change not set to take effect until an undetermined point…

When Ryan Adams started dropping hints that he wanted to cover Taylor Swift’s entire new album—1989—song for song, at first it seemed like a joke. Then, though, things got real—and now the album is here, Ryan Adams’s 1989 in its entirety. There’s nothing offhand about the finished product, which is as fully produced as Adams’s own latest…

When Buddy Guy named Gary Clark Jr as the potential savior of the blues, that had to create some pressure. Clark's follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2012 debut took three years, and the result displays Clark's blues influences as well as his other inspirations. 'The Story of Sonny Boy Slim' is in fact, the story of Gary Clark Jr. And it's a very good read.

John Malkovich announced that he’ll release an album as a Record Store Day Black Friday vinyl exclusive. The album, as Rolling Stone describes, “finds Malkovich reciting classical musician Eric Alexandrakis‘ version of Plato‘s Allegory of the Cave over original material composed and produced by Alexandrakis.” The musical material was then mixed by collaborators including Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon, Dweezil…

Yesterday, Festival Palomino returned to Canterbury Park for its second annual celebration of Americana, faced with the challenge of facing the dreaded sophomore slump. Fortunately, the effort and planning behind the Trampled by Turtles’s festival was apparent. Having the Stars Stage and the Satellites Stage next to each other was a blessing for every fan…

Star Tribune music critic Jon Bream has just published a new book, Dylan: Disc by Disc. It’s our pick this month for The Current’s Rock and Roll Book Club, and Bream stopped by our studios to record an interview with David Campbell. Hear selections from the interview, and the songs discussed in it, tonight on The…

The 2015 Americana Music Festival and Conference spans Sept. 16 to 20 in Nashville. The Current's Bill DeVille and Jim McGuinn attended the conference. See what they saw with a social-media roundup from their days and nights of music meet-ups and shows.