Mark Wheat has no more adjectives to describe this unprecedented season in the Barclays Premier League. With two weeks left in the season, let's build our first XI BPL all-star team together. Make your player pick as Mark spins this week's track, a tune by HAIM.

This weekend’s Mid West Music Fest, in Winona, was an epic event. The weekend started early with Wednesday night shows by Dessa at Broken World Records and Apollo Cobra at Ed’s No Name Bar in celebration of the festival’s fifth anniversary; festival organizers actually kicked Dessa’s show off by singing “Happy Birthday” with the crowd.…

Today the annual Twin Cities Pride festival released its 2014 music lineup—and there will be a lot of music to hear over the weekend of June 28-29. Pop star Betty Who, country singer Steve Grand, pop/Motown/disco legend Thelma Houston, and R&B icon Thea Austin will hit Loring Park for the Pride in Concert show at 5:00…

What songs should we play for our rain soaked week? Give us your suggestions and we'll play a few for the 9:30 Coffee Break.

It’s Prince’s house of pain, but it can be your new dream home: a 13-room villa on the coast of the Alboran Sea in southern Spain. “Music Star Prince’s Villa IN Marbella West For Sale!” enthuses the listing on LuxuryEstate.com. “Love Your Dreams…and Live Your Dreams!” Don’t expect to find any 3RDEYEGIRL merch or Super…

Damon Albarn's first solo release may be slightly bewildering on first listen, but it eventually beguiles. Huge hooks that seem initially buried in the grayish torpor lift themselves out and stay aloft and with you wherever you go.

How does the Twin Cities’ NHL hockey team celebrate after a big win? With a 90s R&B hit, of course. The Minnesota Wild—currently in a tight playoff series against the Colorado Avalanche—have declared “This is How We Do It” to be their official victory anthem, even going so far as to distribute a press release with…

Now that we’ve gotten to that time of year when every single new show that’s booked seems to be happening outdoors (case in point: this week’s big gig announcements werethe Replacements show at Midway Stadium and Trampled by Turtles and Doomtree at Bayfront Park), I thought it’d be fun to round up a handful of…

Let's put together a list of songs from bands that have a "uniform". We'll play some of your suggestions for the 9:30 Coffee Break.

Ali Jaafar, the engineer and owner of Uptown’s Ecstattic Studio, has been making and recording music since the eighth grade, when he plugged a microphone into his boom box to record a song he played on guitar onto a cassette. Jaafar is a self-taught musician who spent much of his early life practicing music with his…