Lee’s Liquor Lounge is being sold, and its new owner plans to preserve the landmark Minneapolis bar and music venue largely as it is. Louis Sirian, owner of Lee’s for 40 years, will sell the venue to regular customer Craig Kruckeberg, who plans to add a patio and begin accepting credit cards, but otherwise doesn’t plan any major…

New York-based trio Red Molly have enjoyed an 11-year career so far. They'll be taking an hiatus soon, but they stopped by Radio Heartland to perform songs from their latest record, 'The Red Album'.

You do you and wear what you want to wear but now that Memorial Day, unofficial kickoff to summer, has passed you can (officially) wear white clothes. To piggyback on today's trivia theme, what songs do you want to hear that feature the word "white" in the title or prominently in the lyrics?

Northwest Community Television has brought to light a little-known local music fact: Sisqó, the Dru Hill singer whose 1999 “Thong Song” hit number three on the U.S. pop charts, currently lives in Maple Grove. “No thongs out here!” laughs the Baltimore native in a televised interview—which doesn’t quite seem right, but there are certainly no undergarments in…

Anyone who has seen Lucius live can tell you just how mesmerizing they can be, with co-frontwomen Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig merging their voices and standing in perfect symmetry, often coordinating their appearance right down to the color of their socks and the cut of their blunt bangs. Wolfe and Laessig have been performing together for…

The original "Twist and Shout" by the Isley Brothers was released; The Beatles recorded "Yellow Submarine" at Abbey Road studios in London; and John and Yoko began an eight-day "bed in" at Montreal's Hotel La Reine Elizabeth to promote world peace, Today in Music History.

Pornonono: Yes Pornonono’s new “Mornonono” single from their new Yes EP feels like new wave met electropop and this is what happened. The five-piece has found a way to meld those twitchy electronic sounds into the warbling bass lines and processed guitar work. The wailing pop vocals aren’t just another part of the electronic soup that Pornonono create,…

A crowd of wet bucket hats swelled for J. Cole’s set that closed out a day of hip-hop Sunday at Soundset: the sold-out crowd at Canterbury Park stuck through a full day of cold rain to hear it all. Soundset’s line-up had far more big names than years past, including J. Cole, Ludacris, Ice Cube,…

On its fourth album, Dawes calls from deep inside the feedback loop of love's aftermath. Throughout All Your Favorite Bands, singer Taylor Goldsmith takes full advantage of the dramatic possibilities.

Jack White is a poet, the world discovered over the weekend when the rocker published a 19-line poem titled “Music is Sacred” on his Third Man Books site. “The melody of the human race,” writes White, “is a song that never ends.” (Rolling Stone) Art Garfunkel has lashed out at Paul Simon in a new interview with…