In terms of pure expression, no singer in popular music can touch Williams when she's calling from the lonely outskirts of Despairville.

This spring, Trampled by Turtles finalized plans to host a new music festival, featuring a hand-picked lineup of nine local and national acts, headlined by the Duluth folk-rockers themselves. Months later, on Saturday, Sept. 20, the fledgling Festival Palomino finally saw daylight…and storm clouds and lightning and wind. Despite challenging weather that revealed the venue’s Achilles’s…

Twin Cities singer-songwriter Dan Rodriguez is warming YouTube’s heart with a song he wrote for a Budweiser commercial promoting responsible drinking. The advertisement tells the story of a guy with a loving Labrador Retriever waiting for him to come home after a night out drinking with his human pals. Rodriguez lends his introspective, echoey vocals…

It’s not much, but for fans who have been waiting with bated breath for the reunited Replacements to release a new album, it’s more than enough to make Monday exciting: “the Replacements say they’ll likely make an album at some point in the future,” writes Rolling Stone‘s Jon Dolan in a profile of the band that…

From here on out, the temperatures begin to drop and the days start to get shorter than the nights. What songs do you want to hear for the Autumnal Equinox?

Today, Michael Rand chatted with Jill Riley and John Munson about The Vikings big loss, the NFL in general, and Twins season is nearly over.

Birthdays for Nick Cave and Joan Jett, Bruce Springsteen went electric, and Bob Dylan went Gold Today in Music History.

On Saturday at the annual Pop Vs. Jock charity basketball game organized by Win Butler of Arcade Fire, Butler and other members of Arcade Fire joined forces with Justin Vernon of Bon Iver—as well as Nikolai Fraiture of the Strokes—to perform as “the Pop All Star Band.” They played covers of Phil Collins‘s “In the Air Tonight” and the White Stripes‘ “Seven Nation…

Ryan Adams' new, self-titled album evokes that late '70s era when the recording of rock bands reached a sonic pinnacle unmatched in the ensuing decades. It sounds like 1979, and that's a compliment.

Who is David Bowie? The reporter sitting next to me asked me that question. She had heard his name, but she didn’t know anything about him. She thought he was a painter (for good reason—she had seen his artworks the night previously). “He does make art,” I said, “And he’s famous for his great music.…