Surprise! Wilco have updated their website with a free download of their unannounced ninth studio album, Star Wars. The 11-track album features all new material and is available for a limited time. The album is expected to have a physical release in August, with a vinyl edition to follow. Frontman Jeff Tweedy elaborates on the…

Composed of sisters Emily, Camilla and Jess Staveley-Taylor, folk-rock trio the Staves passed through the Twin Cities on their way to perform at the Eaux Claires Music and Art Festival in Wisconsin. Their connection to that area runs deep; their latest album, 'If I Was', was produced by Justin Vernon and recorded at his April Base studio. 'It was a really, really magic first trip out there,' Jess Staveley-Taylor says. Check out the full session.

Damon Albarn has made it official: he’s heading into the studio in September to begin work on a new Gorillaz album to be released next year. Earlier this year, artist Jamie Hewlett shared some new illustrations that gave fans the idea a fifth Gorillaz album might be in the works. (Billboard) Rosanne Cash will be among four…

Keith Richards will release 'Crosseyed Heart', his third solo album and his first in more than 20 years, on Sept. 18, 2015, on Republic Records. Get a taste of the upcoming album with its first single, 'Trouble', released today by Republic Records.

Phoning the Hall & Oates Emergency Hotline earlier this morning inspired our Coffee Break for today: What songs do you want to hear that contain or that reference phone numbers? Send us your requests.

MPR News Arts Reporter Marianne Combs joins Jill Riley and Sean McPherson to talk about a bicycle-centric event and two lively plays happening in the Twin Cities area.

Rob Simonds, executive director of the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis’s Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, will step down this fall. Under Simonds’s leadership the Cedar has become an integral component of the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, using music and cultural events to engage the neighborhood’s growing Somali-American population. Before his involvement with the Cedar, Simonds worked with both Boogie Records…

Eau Claire is looking to add a new arts center to their downtown area. Called the Confluence, the project hopes to contribute new performing, visual and educational arts programs to both the community and the Eau Claire campus of the University of Wisconsin, as well as draw in new tourism and revive the downtown area.…

The iconic dog logo, used by RCA, made its debut; the Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records; Sean Cassidy had his one and only No. 1 hit; and the White Stripes played their shortest concert ever, Today in Music History.

Last month, the Hennepin County Millionaires Club, a local band from Minneapolis releasing their first full-length album this September, got a chance to brew a beer made expressly for them with the assistance of local brewpub Day Block Brewing Co. Though they are far from actually being millionaires, the band got their name as a joke because…