Is the song “Happy Birthday” a copyrighted musical composition, or is it in the public domain? The answer to that question makes a big difference to music publisher Warner/Chappell, which would like to collect royalties every time the song appears in a movie or TV show. A U.S. District Judge is currently hearing a civil…

The rangy, prolific jazz trio teams up with the tenor-sax great for a journey into the murky, terrifying, thrilling unknown.

Strange Names: Use Your Time Wisely Though Strange Names are now based in New York, many of these songs will be familiar to Minnesota listeners who followed Strange Names here until they moved east last year. Taking new wave to what they call “next wave” is what the band are doing on Use Your Time…

There are a lot of songs that use the word 'help' or pursue an idea or theme of helping. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, let's all think about help. What songs do you want to hear that contain the word "help" in the title or in the lyrics? Send us your requests.

It was an historic evening at the First Avenue Mainroom as dozens of musicians from the early punk rock and new wave scene converged to celebrate the short-lived but high-impact Longhorn Bar. Open for a few years in the late 1970s and early ’80s, the Longhorn was “a little bit like CBGB with Cheers mixed…

Gabriel Douglas has built his reputation on the churning, heavy-thumping blues rock of the 4onthefloor, whose sound is defined as much by his wild man warrior-bellow vocals as it is by the steady pulse of the four members’ synchronous bass-drum thuds—but a delve into the corners of his catalog reveals an artist with a startling…

March is Women's History Month. To celebrate, each weekday this month we'll be spotlighting a different artist with special coverage on air and online. For Monday, March 9, we're shining a light on Patsy Cline.

The Beatles had a Gold record in one week; Stevie Wonder had a No. 1 with 'You Are the Sunshine of My Life'; Paul Simon's song about film hit No. 1; Supertramp hit No. 1 with 'Breakfast in America'; and Pete Townshend of the Who was born 70 years ago Today in Music History.

Run the Jewels are keeping their promise to release Meow the Jewels, a Kickstarter-backed remix of their Run the Jewels 2 album incorporating cat sounds. El-P has shared a short snippet of “Angelmeowster,” a remix of “Angel Duster.” (Pitchfork) ANGELMEOWSTER (by Dan The Automater) #MeowTheJewels #heyyouaskedforit https://t.co/MjnelRZ4UX — el-p (@therealelp) May 18, 2015 Who booed Kanye West at…

One of the biggest draws at this year’s Rock the Garden is Saturday’s headliner, Belle and Sebastian, who will be returning to Minneapolis for the first time in nine years. And it’s a fine time for the orchestral pop band to be playing a big outdoor show because they just released the danciest album of…