Erik Brandt of the Urban Hillbilly Quartet is also part of the Blood Washed Band, and he's the "guy In charge" at House of Mercy Recordings. Brandt stopped by the Radio Heartland studio to chat about a new music series at the 331 Club in Minneapolis and to play some tracks from the Blood Washed Band's latest album, 'Driftin' Along'.

Frances Bean Cobain, the 22-year-old daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, will be an executive producer of the first-ever authorized documentary film about her late father. The film, titled Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, has been in progress under the direction of filmmaker Brett Morgen. Billboard reports that the film will debut next year on HBO, and…

What songs do you want to hear from bands whose name is a collective/unit/project/outfit for today's coffee break?

The time has come to give thanks for the Twin Cities music scene, and this year’s Thanksgiving Eve has blessed us bountifully. If you’re in need of an escape from batty relatives—or a boost of holiday cheer—take your pick from Wednesday’s cornucopia of entertainment. While you’re getting fancied up, and while you dig in the…

The Band bowed out, Thom Yorke blacked out, and The Beatles released The White Album Today in Music History.

Yoni Yum New psychedelic synth-punk outfit Yoni Yum have released their debut, Greatest (CL)Hits. Yoni Yum combine electronic weirdness with punk-like spirit, tinged with psychedelia. “Talk To Me About Your Kinks” combines droning guitar and Jessica Buns’s entrancing vocals. The tape release and tour sendoff is at the Hexagon on Friday. BNLX BNLX are back with their newest, Flex Time. The EP…

With no explanation or warning, Prince and his band 3RDEYEGIRL have suddenly deleted their Twitter and Facebook accounts, formerly located at Twitter.com/3RDEYEGIRL and Facebook.com/Prince. Star Tribune music critic Chris Riemenschneider noticed that they had suddenly gone dark, and caught a screengrab of the Twitter account with a profile image changed to a masked Prince putting…

On Monday, Dec. 8 at 7 p.m., Greta and Dennis Oglesby will be performing Christmas by Candlelight as a part of Capri Theater’s holiday programming. The show will feature holiday classics sung in the ambiance of candlelight. The Oglesbys will perform favorites such as “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” “My Favorite Things,” and “Mary Did You Know?”,…

Any time you attend a show where Dave King is behind the drum kit, you know you are in for a special performance. King remains so relentlessly active in the Twin Cities music scene that you never know who he’s going to start drumming with and where he’s going to pop up next. The composer…

At some point every day, when I stop for a moment between refreshing my Twitter feed, checking my Facebook messages, answering emails, typing up blog posts, sifting through CDs, and otherwise toggling through all the little tasks that add up to my weird life, I’ll look around and realize that, while I’ve been sitting at my…