March is Women’s History Month, which conjures images of women in wide-brimmed hats marching for voting rights in the early 1900s and Amelia Earheart standing in front of her airplane. Over the past few years, however, I’ve become increasingly interested in spending each March telling the stories of the women who made history right here…

On the day that his new album Chasing Yesterday releases under his High Flying Birds moniker, Noel Gallagher phoned Mary Lucia from London to chat about the new record.

When a musician is about to have her own exhibit at MoMA, the stakes are high for any new album art. In the just-released cover image for physical releases of Vulnicura, Björk doesn’t disappoint. (Pitchfork) Bob Dylan apparently has another album’s worth of Frank Sinatra covers in the can—according to former Dylan producer Daniel Lanois, who says he’s heard…

Inspired by Rolling Stone magazine's list of the best 25 songs about the South, for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, we're asking you what songs about the North would you like to hear?

Idris Goodwin and Maria Isa are both used to playing many roles. They both transition constantly among theaters, recording studios, and the classrooms where they teach. They both have busy travel schedules, crossing the country to pursue projects in multiple media—and they both found themselves at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis on Monday night, celebrating a reading…

Ashley DuBose: Be You Ashley DuBose is looking to make a big splash with her sophomore release Be You, and it seems likely she’ll succeed. The St. Paul singer’s most prominent calling card is still her stint on The Voice, but that might become more of a footnote as DuBose’s footprint on the local music scene grows. Be You is a…

The local music community was happily surprised when St. Paul rapper Allan Kingdom appeared on stage with Kanye West at last week’s Brit Awards to add guest vocals to a new West song, “All Day.” The next question was, would Kingdom be on the studio version of the track too? The track has now been…

As March begins, we're riffing on a weather-related proverb: Specifically, what songs do you want to hear that start softly but end with a roar? Send us your request.

Coming off their explosive First Avenue show last Wednesday, local hip-hop group Doomtree have a lot to look forward to. Starting March 5, the crew (minus Lazerbeak) play 11 shows around the western U.S.; then, Dessa criss-crosses the other side of the country with Welcome to Night Vale. The band will be in Denmark for the…

Remember when Bob Dylan issued a casting call for actors to play some unsavory characters? The video he was planning to shoot has now been released; it’s a noir black-and-white production that accompanies Dylan’s version of “The Night We Called It a Day,” with Dylan himself co-starring as a man involved in a tragic love triangle. (Rolling…