Arcade Fire, retain the top spot but are apparently having trouble selling seats at Target Center for their show March 8. Another new way of doing business is offering special deals up to 50% off on Groupon?!

TV news hosts were pretty excited about the above map this morning. But MPR News' Bob Collins says Metric is not Minnesota's favorite band. People in Minnesota tend to listen to Metric more often than other states because that's what the creator of the map was trying to show. Read Collins's full story.

When he was in the studio with his band The Jicks a couple weeks ago, indie rock paragon Stephen Malkmus took a few minutes to talk to us about his guitar (and how he bought it from a friend) and about his approaches to performing and songwriting.

Let us know what songs you would like to hear from musicians with famous parents. We'll take your suggestions and put together today's 9:30 Coffee Break.

This week Dara spoke to The Morning Show's Jill Riley and Steve Seel about her favorite brunch: dim sum.

Lovely Dark: Into the Roil Psychedelic, layered, and theatrical, Lovely Dark’s upcoming full-length Into the Roil, out March 1, sounds like a walk through a fairytale forest, where the Decemberists meet The Doors meet Fleetwood Mac. The six-piece band’s meticulous and innovative blend includes organic strings, accordion wails, and roaring, distorted electric guitar, all dancing under…

Jimmy Page went solo, U2 got signed, and Michael Jackson went to no. 1 Today in Music History.

As part of this week’s Current Presents special on the Best-Selling Minnesota Artists of All Time, I had the chance to talk to songwriter Dan Wilson about his single “Closing Time”—whose success propelled Semisonic’s Feeling Strangely Fine to platinum status—and his thoughts on the music industry at large. In addition to his work in Semisonic…

We know Minnesota is changing fast. The jobs of the future will be different, and our workforce will be more diverse than ever. So how are Minnesota's schools making sure the students of today and tomorrow will be ready?

John Moe shares the new meme "Pina Colliding" and he talks about the explosion in Buzzfeed quizzes on social media.