The Brooklyn band writes inventive epics that behave like highly concentrated energy shots. You have to pay attention, because key elements arrive and depart in a blink.

When I departed Minneapolis for Chicago last weekend to attend the three-day Pitchfork Festival, I already knew that I was going to dig seeing Beck headline Friday night’s festivities and have a blast singing along to tUnE-yArDs and St. Vincent, both of whom have played Minneapolis this year. But I was also looking forward to checking out some new…

Sifu Hotman Sifu Hotman is a relatively new group on the block, though its members are anything but. The new super group comprises Rhymesayers rapper Dem Atlas, spoken word artist and rapper Guante, and producer Rube. Their debut project Embrace the Sun will be next Tuesday. If you don’t have the patience to wait to hear the debut, the…

What songs with a nonsense word (or words) do you want to hear for today's Coffee Break?

Today John Moe chatted with The Morning Show's Jill Riley and Steve Seel about the Comcast call from Hell that went viral, and the viral video of the girl who truly believed her dad stole her nose.

With Bruce Springsteen’s iconic and top-selling album, Born in the U.S.A., turning 30 this year, a dozen artists have stepped up to record covers of the album’s 12 tracks for a new compilation called Dead Man’s Town. And as we reported earlier this month, two of the artists on the compilation are from Duluth, Minnesota. We’ll have…

Aretha Franklin was arrested, Prince scored a hit with "Batman," and Rufus Wainwright was born Today in Music History.

Beat-making equipment used by hip-hop producer J Dilla will join Dorothy’s red slippers, Julia Child’s kitchen, and the Star-Spangled Banner in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution. The late musician’s mother will donate her son’s equipment to the National Museum of African American Arts and History, the new Smithsonian museum currently being constructed on the…

Lese Majesty is MC and producer Ishmael Butler's most relentlessly noncommercial chapter yet. No hits, no singles; just raw, graceful tunes from the inventive former leader of Digable Planets.

Nashville indie band Kate Tucker and the Sons of Sweden have announced a July 28 show at the Mall of America’s new incarnation of the 400 Bar, which is now identified on TicketFly as the “400 Gallery.” The announcement indicates that the new venue will open four days earlier than previously expected; tickets are now on…