After sitting empty for a year, downtown St. Paul jazz venue the Artists’ Quarter has reopened its doors under the new name Vieux Carre. It is now owned and operated by Minneapolis’s Dakota Jazz Club. The beloved basement club was named after New Orleans’s historic French Quarter; the name is meant to translate to “old quarter” in honor of the…

What song would you push play on as the the world burned around you, and why would you want to hear that particular song?

Burn Fetish It’s a new year, and local noise-rock trio Burn Fetish are starting the year off with the release of their Animal EP. Calling Burn Fetish a noise-rock trio is as close to a concise description as you can get. There are bluesy roots on the track “This Party Tastes Like Pepsi-Cola,” but if the Animal…

Jack White, Drake and AC/DC will headline the 2015 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, whose lineup was announced this afternoon. Also on the bill for the April 10-19 festival are Alt-J, Alabama Shakes, Father John Misty, Florence and the Machine, Ryan Adams, and the War on Drugs. Minnesota artists are absent from this year’s lineup.…

Tongue-in-cheek tweets by Kanye West fans stirred a minor panic among Beatles fans who thought that some young tweeters actually didn’t know who Kanye’s latest collaborator—Paul McCartney—is. Both The Mirror U.K. and Good Morning America stirred the pot by reporting on the the story. “WHO IS PAUL MCCARTNEY?” read a GMA feed. “KANYE’S FANS DON’T KNOW THE BEATLE.” Maybe…

What songs about freezing or being frozen would you like to hear?

We know our local music scene is huge—but just how huge? We asked Dave Loomer of MN Live to help us get a quantitative handle on haps in the Twin Cities music scene last year: how many shows, how many releases, how many new bands. The Current’s Nate Ryan has presented these data in the form…

From Jan. 16 to around Feb. 14, PJ Harvey will record her next album while on public display—along with her band, producers, and engineers—inside a glass box in London. The box will be located inside the New Wing of Somerset House in London, and will be lined with one-way glass: holders of tickets (already sold out)…

The self-deprecating music Field Report churn out merits charm through its relatability, especially to Midwesterners. 'Marigolden' sounds like winter: Its songs are sharp and perhaps a little bitter, yet loosely cloaked in a faint hope for warmer and sunnier days.

What songs with exercise or athletic related titles should we play for today's 9:30 Coffee Break.