We Rock Long Distance, the first feature-length documentary by Minneapolis-based director and producer Justin Schell, is set to premiere on Feb. 6. The film follows the stories of three Minnesota hip-hop artists, showing how their roots “far beyond the Land of 10,000 Lakes” have influenced their life and music. The documentary film has been a several-year…

Us Weekly isn’t the New York Times—but it’s not the National Enquirer either, so an Us Weekly report that Prince has “something in the works” for the Grammys has fans’ tongues wagging. The report only cites an anonymous source, but this mystery person is absolutely certain that “He has something very, very special in the works!” Stay…

A month after suggesting they might reunite, the original lineup of L7 have made it official: they’re getting the band back together after 14 years apart. In a Facebook post, the band enthusiastically announced their reunion for two European festival dates and a fan-funded documentary. Just hours after the announcement, nearly $20,000 has been pledged…

What songs do you want to hear from artists that have told politicians to stop using their music?

Things are about to get droney on our Local Current stream. Beginning tonight at midnight and ending at 4:00 a.m. on Thursday, Local Current will be streaming the full 28 hours of last year’s Drone Not Drones charity concert. The concert took place Feb. 7-8 of last year, raising money and awareness for Doctors Without Borders. The second…

Today John Moe chatted with The Morning Show's Jill Riley and Steve Seel about Microsoft building a hologram world, and we check out some football related bad lip reading.

Doomtree: All Hands The hometown hip-hop collective known as Doomtree are dropping their fourth studio album. To celebrate the release of All Hands, Doomtree will be appearing at various businesses around town, pausing for a 2 p.m. “ask-me-anything” Reddit chat. They will be ending the day at the new Surely taproom to share some beers with their…

As we reported earlier, Sam Smith and the co-writers of Smith’s hit “Stay With Me” have agreed to share songwriting royalties with Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne due to strong similarities between “Stay With Me” and Petty’s 1989 hit “I Won’t Back Down.” Smith’s rep has elaborated on the settlement, telling Rolling Stone that the similarities between the…

Is founding guitarist Tom DeLonge still in the band Blink-182? The band says no: as Billboard reports, Blink-182 released a statement saying that “a week before we were scheduled to go in to the studio we got an email from his manager explaining that he didn’t want to participate in any Blink-182 projects indefinitely, but…

What songs that have been in a plagiarism lawsuit should we play for today's Coffee Break?