Following a performance of three songs from the solo album, Michael, Killer Mike sat down with The Current’s Jill Riley to share his deeply personal and profoundly moving story. Watch the complete interview.

Bryan May said August Golden, 35, was a talented artist, songwriter and photographer. Golden was killed in a mass shooting at a house venue known as Nudieland.

A friend has identified August Golden as the man killed in a mass shooting at a Minneapolis punk show on Friday night. Alex Stillman is a local business owner of a record press. Stillman was at the show and talked about Golden, what she saw and how this will impact the community.

Clarence Avant boosted the careers of a vast array of influential figures, including Michael Jackson, Jim Brown and Barack Obama. He came back into the news after his wife was murdered in 2021.

Minneapolis police are looking for the suspects who shot seven people, killing one man, Friday night at a punk rock show.

This summer, three women at the peak of their powers lead a spectacular pop culture revival. Barbie, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift shattered records and created a communal economy of irrational exuberance.

Sixto Rodriguez, who lived in obscurity as his music career flamed out early in the U.S. only to find success in South Africa and a stardom he was unaware of, died Tuesday in Detroit. He was 81. 

The 2012 film "Searching for Sugar Man" tells the bizarre story of what happened decades later when some fans went on a hunt for their idol. Revisit this feature from MPR News, republished in light of the passing of Rodriguez at age 81.

Derrick Stevens shares his firsthand experience as a witness to and participant in the birth of hip-hop and in its emergence in the Twin Cities.

The inaugural North By North Loop Festival in Minneapolis will feature Ber, Lissie, Mike Kota, Nur-D, Turn Turn Turn and others.