At 25, Lucy Michelle has firmly established herself in the Twin Cities music community as a distinct voice. She's collaborated with countless artists and released four albums with her full band The Lapelles. But the time has come for her to branch out on her own, and she's got the help of two of Minnesota's most respected musicians.

Formed out of a personal tragedy, The Ericksons united sisters Bethany and Jenny with a relocation to Brooklyn. With that move, they played music every night together, finessing a brand of melancholic folk that often provides warmth when you least expect it.

This week on New Hot, read about a musician with local ties who is getting help from Julian Casablancas, a Swede who got popular off of a cover of The Knife and a French band returning after a three-year silence. These are our three recommended releases for Tuesday, April 23.

Record Store Day is coming up fast and will take over Minnesota’s many independent stores on Saturday, April 20. For the uninitiated, Record Store Day is a call to action and a way to raise awareness of the many fine physical record and CD stores we still have in our midst, and the tradition seems…

Singer and songwriter Bryan Ferry is a musical icon whose career spans from the several classic albums released by his band Roxy Music in the '70s and early '80s into a long, eclectic and accomplished solo career.

Pickwick, whose style is a fusion of raw, garage-y indie blues-rock and retro-licious R&B/soul, just released the full-length album Can't Talk Medicine and continue to build buzz with national touring.

We finally got a concrete glimpse at one of the year's most anticipated and tightly guarded releases at midnight last night, when Daft Punk finally released a full-length radio edit of "Get Lucky," the new single they'd teased in a series of short ads on Saturday Night Live (and on giant screens at Coachella last weekend).

Tomorrow is Record Store Day and we're gearing up for it with a 9:30 Coffee Break of songs about records.

Stephanie Curtis reviews a new sci-fi thriller starring Tom Cruise.

  “This will be our response to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, and more devotedly than ever before.” That’s a quote from Leonard Bernstein, and it’s about the only thing that I’ve read that’s made any sense to me this week. With that in mind, here are a handful of young Minnesotan artists…