nelle Monae's music is often called futuristic. That's partly due to her subject matter: Her breakthrough releases, the 2007 EP 'Metropolis' and the 2010 album 'The ArchAndroid,' form a connected story arc about a robot who falls in love with a human. But moreover, the work of the 27-year-old singer is difficult to classify -- rooted in R&B but pulling from too many different genres to count.

Music evokes strong memories. That's true not just for the music of your generation, but what your parents listened to, too, a study says. Researchers found a strong "reminiscence bump" for music of the early 1980s in people in their early 20s.

The 27th annual Summit Backyard Bash happens this Saturday, and we wanted to give you a preview of the killer lineup along with a suggested Summit brew for each set of music (please drink responsibly!).

Listener Bob was upset about all our cat coverage in the 9:30 Coffee Break, so he recommended we have a dog song themed Coffee Break. What should we play?

MPR Movie Maven Stephanie Curtis reviews Afternoon Delight, a new film starring Kathryn Hahn and Juno Temple.

Adam Dunn is easily one of the most prolific videographers in the Twin Cities right now. In addition to producing conceptual music videos for artists like Longshot (who we featured in this space last week), he’s been cranking out dozens of videos at a time for his Lights and a Backdrop series. I actually had…

The Morning Show's Jill Riley and Heavy Table's James Norton sat down with Nic and Orest Kramarczuk to talk about the history of the festival, details for this year, and they tried out a couple of this year's sausage and beer offerings.

Eric Clapton helped out The Beatles, James Brown retired, and Fleetwood Mac hit to the top of the charts for the first time Today in Music History.

The Cloak Ox - King Rope, from the new album "Shoot The Dog."

Lordy lordy, looks like Lorde is established as our #1 for three straight weeks! She's playing a few shows in the UK right now and will come to the coasts of the States again late in September and early October — still no dates close to us here, though.