Beach Fossils - Generational Synthetic, from the new album "Clash The Truth."

"Retrograde," which you'll hear on The Current starting this week, builds on the avant-R&B of James Blake's debut, but steers clear of the out-there electronic wrinkles that usually characterize his production.

February is I Love to Read Month. We need your help to come up with songs that are about or inspired by books. Give us your book song suggestions for today's 9:30 Coffee Break.

Today James Norton spoke to The Morning Show's Jill Riley and Steve Seel about the revitalization of the Longfellow area and the new restaurant Parka.

  Now the longest-running independent folk and roots label in the country, St. Paul’s Red House Records is celebrating 30 years in the industry. In that time they’ve established themselves as a steadfast supporter of Americana acts here in the Midwest and a champion of what they refer to as “authentic, honest” music nationally. For Red House…

Jimi Hendrix played his first show, AC/DC's Bon Scott passed away, and The Supremes have a fourth no. 1 hit Today in Music History.

  The 7th annual TC Hip Hop Awards, which were scheduled to take place at Myth Nightclub in Maplewood this Friday, February 22, has been canceled just days prior to taking place. Though the annual awards show has certainly had its share of difficulties—the last two years have been plagued by fights, and last year’s…

Have you marked this date on your calendar yet? Record Store Day is coming up on April 20, 2013, and one Minnesota-based company is already getting in on the vinyl-loving actin. Noiseland Industries has just unveiled the track list for its second volume of American Buffalo, a collection of songs from Twin Cities artists that…

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - So Good At Being In Trouble, from the new album "II."

Aretha Franklin's biography is a tour of the music industry's movers-and-shakers over the past half-century. She is the musical equivalent of Kevin Bacon: so linked to the influential figures of rock and soul history that a connection is never more than six steps removed.