Rolling Stone digs into Bob Dylan‘s long speech accepting his MusiCares Person of the Year award, but even they can’t understand why, after thanking many artists, Dylan chose to dis Merle Haggard by saying “Merle Haggard didn’t think much of my songs…I love Merle but he’s no Buck [Owens].” The remark seems inexplicable, since Dylan and Haggard…

Fitness: Witness Some Wisconsin and University of Minnesota alumni have put their garage-rock tunes into their very cohesive debut Witness. Fitness recorded their album in under three weeks in the basement of a university library while hanging out over Christmas break. That gives you a sense of the band’s aesthetic, but their sound isn’t hidden under a pile…

Going into its sixth year as a music festival in Winona, Mid West Music Fest (MWMF) promises three days of live performances, along with educational presentations and family friendly activities from April 23-25. This year’s festival will feature headliner Charlie Parr—who has performed every year at MWMF since 2011—as well as DJ Abilities, Chastity Brown, Communist Daughter,…

If our machines are actually listening to us, what songs do you think they'd like to hear? For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, we're asking for songs that reference technology.

This week, John Moe chatted with The Morning Show's Steve Seel and Jill Riley about how your Samsung smart TV is listening to what you're saying -- and sharing what you say with a third party. Nothing creepy about that at all.

Rod Stewart had a hit with 'Do Ya Think I'm Sexy', Michael Jackson spoke for the first time in 15 years, and The Clash began recording their first album Today in Music History.

This Valentine’s week we’re pleased to premiere the song and video “Nervous Butterfly,” a complex romantic song by the busy and talented local rapper Botzy. It’s the latest taste of his forthcoming album Still Not Dead Yet, to be released April 21 on Polkadot Mayhem; “Ate Me” dropped last fall. Read more about Botzy’s roots in Andrea…

Although Kanye West stopped short of actually yanking the Best Album Grammy out of Beck‘s hands, he still thinks it should have gone to Beyoncé—and what’s more, he thinks Beck should hand the statuette over. “When you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of…

When creating his musical mash-up series, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel knew he had to find someone stupendously talented and devilishly good-looking to perform with the sisters of Haim. Obviously, it had to be the legendary Morris Day, who joined the California trio on Kimmel’s show last night with the Time to perform the classic “Jungle Love.”…

You may have noticed a few new murals pop up around the Twin Cities lately. Perhaps you've seen Paul Bunyan and Babe's take on Say Anything? Or maybe you've spotted the Lake Minnetonka tribute to Prince's Purple Rain motorcycle?