It's Friday and we are taking it easy. Let's simplify our lives with some simplistic music. What simplistic songs do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?

MPR's Movie Maven, Stephanie Curtis, joins Jill Riley and Jade (filling in for Steve Seel) to review a new coming-of-age film that stars Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney and Liam James -- and features music by Duluth's Trampled by Turtles.

There’s a theme to this week’s Friday Five, and it has a lot to do with a talented local filmmaker named Adam J. Dunn (who we recently profiled here). Dunn is in the midst of a series of videos that he calls Lights and a Backdrop, a self-explanatory title for a simple concept that he’s been…

Partly because of his unparallelled hustle, and partly because of his work in genre-defying group Culture Cry Wolf, Botzy has become one of the most recognizable names in Twin Cities hip hop in recent years. So it’s hard to believe that he considers Buck Fotzy, the solo album that he’s releasing tomorrow night at the…

Rolling Stones made their live debut, a Limp Bizkit got arrested in St. Paul, and Soul Asylum's Dan Murphy is 51 Today in Music History.

First Communion Afterparty - Jesus Told You, from the forthcoming album "Earth Heat Sound."

Alt-J are inducted into the Chart Hall of Fame this week after spending 6 weeks total at the top, the first band ever to recover the top position TWICE! If Daft Punk recover the top spot for their final week they'll EQUAL that new record!

Today is "Cheer Up the Lonely Day," we hope to help by playing a lonely set of music to show that they've got company in their loneliness. What lonely songs do you want to hear?

MPR News Arts Reporter Marianne Combs joins The Current's Steve Seel and Jill Riley to talk about about the first in a series of three new plays and about two outdoor dance events that are perfect for summertime.

If you’ve read this Local Radar feature since it began, you’ve probably noticed my affinity for Food Pyramid, consistently one of the more under-appreciated bands by local music critics. And I get it: their brand of repetitive, fuzzed out, electro-space rock whatever-you-want-to-call-it is not everyone’s forte. And when most of your songs clock in anywhere…