When the door at 425 Portland Avenue clicks shut behind longtime Star Tribune music critic Jon Bream today, he’ll not only be saying farewell to the building where he started his professional journalism career 40 years ago. He will also be parting with a monstrous collection of 25,000 vinyl albums and thousands of CDs that…

A BBC reporter comes to Minnesota in search of Prince's storied vault of unreleased recordings.

Vulture asked Brian Wilson to comment on rumors that he’d been collaborating with Frank Ocean and Lana Del Rey for his new album Pier Pressure, on which neither of the two appear. “Frank Ocean didn’t want to do the song,” explained Wilson. “He wanted to do rap, so we canceled him. Lana Del Rey, uh, she just canceled out on…

Local singer-songwriter Steve Noonan released his newest record, I Could Be Anywhere, last month. It’s his first full-length record following two EPs, Steve Noonan and A Mile Long. Though Noonan’s career as a songwriter began around 2008, his work in the local music scene extends quite a bit further back. He attended Berklee College of Music…

For the second year in a row, we're going to pit band vs. band; artist vs. artist in the musical slug-fest known as The Current's March Music Madness!

MPR News Arts Reporter Marianne Combs joins Jill Riley and Sean McPherson (in for Steve Seel) to talk about arts items that are in the news or on the edge - or a little bit of both.

The Stones get a bit of a shock; Mott the Hoople get a new lease of life; Hall and Oates have their first No. 1 hit; U2's the Edge donates a favorite guitar to charity; and Pink Floyd hit No. 1 in the all-time album charts, Today in Music History.

Father John Misty jumps to #1 ahead of sold out First Avenue show; Alvvays retired to the Chart Show Hall of Fame the week of their big Northrop gig with the Decemberists; Django Django make a debut; Modest Mouse are the highest new entry.

With their new album Strangers to Ourselves still new on record store shelves, Modest Mouse have confirmed that their next album will come out next year—and that it will feature a contribution by Krist Novoselic of Nirvana. Novoselic says the bass riff he played for the band is “pretty edgy.” (NME) Watch Modest Mouse perform “Be Brave” on The Late Late…

Anyone who’s seen Lizzo perform live in recent months knows that she’s outspoken about social justice and, in particular, about the concerns over police brutality that she shares with many who have been troubled by the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. The Minneapolis MC has now joined with N.A.S.A. and Sean Paul for…