Happy Friday! As the workin’ week winds down, take a look back at some of the best Minnesota-made music videos to emerge this week—including a few from Adam J. Dunn’s ongoing Lights and a Backdrop series, the latest of which he filmed at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis. Before we get into this week’s goods, I…

Do you have a musical "one that got away?" For Barb Abney, it would be Placebo. She missed a chance to see their live set in Ohio, and now, 15 years on, she's finally getting a chance to see Placebo live.

Nearly 14 years after playing their final show, Babes in Toyland have quietly reassembled and started rehearsing in North Hollywood, California—and this week we got our first look at the reunited group. Founder and lead singer Kat Bjelland, drummer Lori Barbero, and bassist Maureen Herman (who joined the group after Michelle Leon’s departure in 1992) started discussing…

What should we play to celebrate the Great Minnesota Get Together? Give us your suggestions for today's 9:30 Coffee Break.

MPR's Movie Maven Stephanie Curtis joins Steve Seel and Jade (in for Jill Riley) to talk about a new drama starring Chloe Grace Moretz.

This past spring, Molly Kate Kestner—an 18-year-old high school senior in Austin, Minnesota—captured the hearts of millions of people with a wildly popular video, recorded off the cuff with a cracked iPhone, of herself singing and playing her original song “His Daughter.” The song, about a young girl who transcends a turbulent family situation thanks…

Elvis Presley started his first film, Led Zeppelin created water activated album cover art, and Tori Amos celebrates a birthday Today in Music History.

No matter what your interests are, there is something for everyone at the Minnesota State Fair. That goes for music fans, as well. In addition to plenty of free shows that take place throughout the fairgrounds every year, high profile acts and entertainers have been performing at the Grandstand since 1962. Even though the Grandstand…

“Now Amy will oversee the comings and goings of her home town forever,” says Mitch Winehouse, father of the late Amy Winehouse, in reference to a bronze sculpture of the songstress that will be unveiled in Camden Town, London on Sept. 14: the date that would have been Amy’s 31st birthday. (Billboard) The pathbreaking Swedish experimental dance-pop…

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