The three-day festival included a reunion of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and the debut of Giddens’ new band, The Old-Time Revue.

The 27th Annual Homegrown Music Festival runs from April 27 to May 4 in Duluth and Superior, Wisconsin. More than 170 acts are scheduled to perform in 38 venues, which are broken down into neighborhood clusters each night for maximum listening adventures.

The seven acts voted into the Rock Hall this year include Southern rap and Midwest garage rock duos, pillars of the grunge and English blues rock eras and the '80s most unusual pop star.

For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music scenes has been a long road. A festival in Durham this weekend aims to remedy that.

Formed in 1975, Pere Ubu embodied the industrial decay and hardscrabble ethics of Cleveland. Thomas tied together the band's sound with uncompromising vocals that exuded steely menace and unfettered anguish.

The Minneapolis-based band released their latest record, GHOST FOX 2020, in March. They play the final show of their Berlin residency in Minneapolis on Sunday, April 27.

The 27th Annual Homegrown Music Festival, the biggest week-long music event in Minnesota launches Sunday in Duluth. Learn more here about Willem Dafoe Fan Club, the Langertsons, and Peat Boggs.

On Thursday, April 10, Carbon Sound and The Current presented papa mbye and friends at Amsterdam Bar & Hall in St. Paul as part of Minnesota Music Month.

Singer-songwriter Kris Delmhorst talks about a guitar she saw in a shop in Colorado and knew it was the guitar for her.

Jillian Lauren suffered a non-life-threatening injury this week when police shot her in her yard after they say she pointed a gun at them. Details about the incident in Los Angeles are still emerging.