Alabama Shakes are at #1 for the third time; Florence and the Machine and Tame Impala see bumps after playing Coachella; Sufjan Stevens makes his debut; Courtney Barnett and the Punch Brothers are inducted to the Chart Show Hall of Fame.

Carson McHone got hooked on songwriting while still a high-schooler. She's been touring heavily on the strength of her self-titled EP, and she and her band stopped into the Radio Heartland studio while on tour road-testing songs from a forthcoming album.

Just after the Target in Victoria, British Columbia closed on March 31—along with other Target stores across Canada—a group of employees recorded a cover of Semisonic‘s “Closing Time” for a poignant video that’s now gone viral. (Vita.mn) Don Henley has accepted the Duluth Trading Co.’s apology for an e-mail ad headlined, “Don a henley and take…

A recent article in 'The Atlantic' explored the virtues of being short. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs would you like to hear by musicians who are short on height but long on talent?

Erik Thompson of City Pages stops in to talk to Jill Riley and Sean McPherson (in for Steve Seel) about City Pages' just-out 'Best of the Twin Cities' issue. This year's theme is 'Made in Minnesota'.

Heavy Table Editor James Norton joins Jill Riley and Sean McPherson (in for Steve Seel) to talk about a culinary tour he's been doing of Central Avenue Northeast, from Interstate 694 all the way down to Broadway Avenue in Minneapolis.

Record Store Day marks its ninth year on Saturday, April 18 with a brand-new round of exclusive releases. Celebrating independently owned record stores, RSD has grown into an international phenomenon, with 1,400 participating stores in the U.S. alone and thousands more across six continents. No matter which corner of the Twin Cities you find yourself in…

Roberta Flack started a six-week run at No. 1; Queen won an Ivor Novello Award; the Fine Young Cannibals hit No. 1 with a 'crazy' single; Montell Jordan showed us how he does it with his No. 1 hit; and Frank and Nancy Sinatra went to number one with a father-daughter recording, Today in Music History.

Conservative British Prime Minister David Cameron is up for reelection in just a couple of weeks, and his wife Samantha Cameron is making headlines across the Pond for her appreciation of indie rock. In what the Daily Mail describes as her “first full interview,” Cameron says she constantly listens to BBC 6—the British Broadcasting Corporation’s indie…

Jack White announced on Tuesday that “he will be taking a break from performing live for a long period of time.” First, though, he’s going to conclude his Lazaretto world tour with his first-ever acoustic tour (“amplified only with ribbon microphones”): an eccentric five-stop tour with tickets sold exclusively at the door, one per buyer, for $3…