The longtime writer and actor on Conan O'Brien's late-night shows is a huge music fan. 'Bands like the Replacements and R.E.M. were as influential to me when it comes to comedy as a lot of my favorite comedians were,' he says. Read more about Brian Stack and the music that moves him.

Kurt Cobain‘s childhood home in Aberdeen, Washington is on the market for $400,000. According to the real estate agency handling the sale, the home still bears marks from Cobain’s childhood—literally, in the sense of drawings he made on the wall and a hole he punched with his fist as a teenager. (Reuters) The most famous…

The World Health Organization recommends limiting sugar intake to 25 grams per day 'for additional health benefits'. But because music is calorie-free, what songs that mention 'sugar' or 'sweet' do you want to hear for today's Coffee Break?

Dance created from non-dance? A dress inspired by science? MPR News Arts Reporter Marianne Combs joins Jill Riley to talk about arts events that draw inspiration from a variety of sources.

When a colleague saw I was editing an audio recording called “Peter Asher,” he gasped. “Wow!” he said. “The Peter Asher?” Yes, indeed: the Peter Asher. Best-known as the “Peter” of Peter and Gordon, Asher has enjoyed a remarkable career in music that’s encompassed work as a producer and manager—perhaps most notably as a significant force in…

Elvis made his television debut; Barbra Streisand had her second No. 1 hit; Michael Jackson's 'Billie Jean' started a seven-week run at No. 1; R.E.M. cleaned up at the Rolling Stone Awards; and country music lost legendary singer Patsy Cline Today in Music History.

A just-released trailer for Sufjan Stevens‘s upcoming tour features previously unheard music from his forthcoming album Carrie & Lowell. The much-anticipated album, Stevens’s first since 2010’s The Age of Adz, is named after Stevens’s mother and stepfather and concerns, according to a press release, “life and death, love and loss, and the artist’s struggle to make sense…

Minnesota's Hippo Campus climb to #1 after signing to Grand Jury Records; Modest Mouse near first Chart Show Hall of Fame induction; new entries include Alabama Shakes, Glass Animals and Hot Chip.

When Star Tribune reporter Libor Jany tweeted a photo of Prince‘s high school basketball team, he couldn’t have guessed it would go viral—after all, the photo was already published in the newspaper, in 1984. National blogs loved the rediscovered photo of an afro-sporting Prince in his Bryant Junior High days, though, and Jany got hundreds…

As St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman stops by The Current's Morning Show to talk about exciting things happening in the capital city, we're wondering, what songs that name-check St. Paul or are about St. Paul places do you want to hear?