The classic Brit-pop band's eighth studio album, The Magic Whip, releases April 28. Hear the first single "Go Out."

Sleater-Kinney have partnered with the TV show Bob’s Burgers for their “A New Wave” video. (Pitchfork) The New Yorker said that Justin Timberlake‘s “Cry Me a River” may be “the most polyphonically complex teenybopper ballad in history.” Here’s CHVRCHES‘ synthpop take on the 2002 song. (Billboard) The 2015 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards will be held on March 28, and Billboard…

Feburary 19 is the Lunar New Year, and celebrations spread across China and much of the world in honor of it. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, we're asking, what songs would you like to hear that mention or are about the moon?

MPR News Arts Reporter Marianne Combs joins Steve Seel and Jill Riley to talk about artistic happenings in the Twin Cities this weekend, including the Brave New Workshop's latest satirical offering.

Watch a video of Caroline Smith as she performs an acoustic version of 'Child Of Moving On' live at the Bryant Lake Bowl theater for 89.3 The Current, as part of The Current's 10-year anniversary celebration.

Cloud Cult have been featured by Rolling Stone as one of a group of enviro-friendly artists, in the company of Adele, Radiohead, Neil Young, U2, the Roots, and Björk. The band’s conservation efforts go beyond buying eco-friendly paint for the artists known to paint during their shows: in 1997, the band’s husband-and-wife leaders Craig and Connie Minowa built a recording studio…

Manfred Mann's Earth Band were "blinded" by a No. 1 hit; Ozzy Osbourne remembered the Alamo in his own way; Johnny Cash's family rebuffed a crass advertising pitch; and Smokey Robinson celebrates his 75th birthday, Today in Music History.

Vick Johnson, a local guitarist known for playing with Curtiss A, died of cancer Thursday morning. He was 59. Johnson was a longtime member of Curtiss A’s band, which plays a yearly John Lennon tribute concert at First Avenue. He lent his guitar and vocals to other Curtiss A acts and played in many original and cover groups since the late…

On one of the last cold nights of January, three members of the Weathered Heads unwound on a blue leather couch in their rehearsal space in Winona. Lead vocalist Craig Weatherhead explained that the band were recovering from a weekend of traveling between Minneapolis for a show at the Cabooze and Duluth for a show…

alt-J grab the top spot only beating Belle and Sebastian by the narrowest of margins; six brand new songs debut by artists including Father John Misty, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Robert DeLong and more.