As the album title suggests, Slug and Ant are using this new Atmosphere record to rep the south side of Minneapolis, where they have lived and worked for the majority of their career. You can practically picture Slug wandering down Lake Street deep in thought as he raps about his place in this broken world.

An article being passed around the Internet claims to have verification from the writers of “Let It Go,” the hit Oscar-winning anthem from Disney’s Frozen, that they were inspired by Prince’s 1994 song “Letitgo” and in fact shared a demo with the artist, adding the line “the cold never bothered me anyway” after Prince made that…

Happy Friday! Here’s a handful of the best and brightest music videos to emerge this week from the Minnesota scene: Haley Bonar and Choo Choo Bob Ohhhh, fer cute. Haley Bonar recently appeared on the Choo Choo Bob Show to perform a song she wrote just for the show, “Build Somethings.” Sonny Knight and the…

It’s a rare thing to look around a music venue and not see a dozen faces lit up with the cold blue lights of smartphones, and even rarer to hear no sound but the band. Yet, at the Cedar Cultural Center last night, Angel Olsen transported the audience to a time before technology and abbreviated…

What musicians that are known for wearing hats should we play? Give us your ideas and we'll play a few for the 9:30 Coffee Break.

When Amy Abts returns to Duluth this weekend to play Homegrown, it won’t just be a return to a city where she spent her formative music-making years and a festival she helped launch. It will be something of a victory lap for Abts—who has spent the past few years undergoing treatment for a rare brain…

Apollonia Kotero is no stranger to the Twin Cities. As Prince’s on-screen romantic interest in Purple Rain, she spent many months here filming the 1984 movie—and June 28 will mark her first time back in Minneapolis since the shooting of the film over 30 years ago. Kotero will participate in the third annual Benefit 2…

Let's put together a celebratory playlist of "wild" songs. What should we play with "wild" in the title?

The weeks leading up to graduation are a momentous time for any high school senior, but for Austin, Minnesota teen Molly Kate Kestner, this excitement has grown exponentially. On April 20, Kestner posted a YouTube video of herself emotively performing “His Daughter,” an original song, accompanying herself on piano. The video now has over 1.4…

Although singer-songwriter Brent Colbert has been performing as the Awful Truth since 2008, he is a relatively new act on the Twin Cities scene. This month marks the one-year anniversary of Colbert moving to Minneapolis from his previous homebase of Salt Lake City, Utah, and he’s celebrating tonight by playing his biggest show to date…