Previously: Women’s History Month: Minnesota’s earliest pioneers We are making our way through Women’s History Month 2015, a month dedicated to documenting, preserving, and honoring the stories of influential women throughout our nation’s past. This year I’ve decided to zero in on all of the amazing women who blazed trails across the Minnesota music scene,…

Forefeather, a Minneapolis hip-hop artist, recently made a pilgrimage to India that has heavily influenced his music and changed his view on life. During his travel, he captured a variety of sounds for his energetic new album, 3Rhythms. Forefeather grew up in the Twin Cities, which allowed him to experiment with several genres of music. This experimenting…

The Recording Industry Association of America introduced a sales-award system using names of precious metals; the Beatles had their seventh No. 1 hit; a coffeehouse chain launched a music label; and Tammy Wynette and George Jones called it quits Today in Music History.

Happy Friday! We are about halfway through this month’s Women’s History celebrations, with another hour-long playlist coming up at noon on Local Current and the Women’s History Month edition of The Local Show happening Sunday night from 6-8 p.m. While researching the artists who I’ll be spinning on the Local Current and Local Shows, I…

The year is 1984 and the Minneapolis music scene has officially exploded. I am a St. Paul girl going on 13 years old, growing up by Macalaster College listening to WMCN radio station kick out some serious Twin Cities talent and catching the 94B bus downtown to attend every all-ages show possible at First Avenue. The first…

Prince is kicking off his “Hit & Run” tour in Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday, and while no further stops have yet been announced, he and his band 3RDEYEGIRL are showing Louisville a lot of love. They’ve added two Sunday shows to the originally announced pair of Saturday shows, for a total of four shows this weekend. They also gave a…

As the popular selfie stick is getting banned from a growing list of museums and cultural venues around the world, we're wondering what songs you'd like to hear with 'me' or 'I' in the title. Tell us your requests.

One of the biggest curveballs in this year’s Rock the Garden lineup was the announcement of St. Paul’s futuristic-R&B quartet thestand4rd, who will kick off the festival on Saturday, June 20 at the Walker Art Center. If you said Who? or simply want to know more about this skyrocketing group, here are four quick facts about…

For local music fans of a certain age, it may be hard to believe that it was nearly 45 years ago that First Avenue welcomed Joe Cocker to the stage of the former bus depot that was appropriately known as “the Depot” to inaugurate a second life for what would become one of the most…

Singer and guitarist Isaac Brock opens up about 'Strangers to Ourselves,' the group's first album in eight years -- and what he's learned in the meantime about being in bands.