The Scottish pop band has fun on Every Open Eye, but its disco ball is tiled with galvanized steel. Listen to Chvrches' upcoming album before it comes out on Sept. 25.

In support of their third studio album Plum Slump, Peter Wolf Crier stopped by The Local Show to perform all new music live in The Current studio and to chat with host David Campbell.

Foo Fighters say that they were invited by the Television Academy to become “the first ever rock band on the Emmys,” playing a track from their documentary series Sonic Highways. Fox, however, “refused to allow the band to play a full song from the Emmy-winning Sonic Highways,” according to the band, who then opted not to…

It would take you a while, but it would be worth it. I guarantee that if you went out to a show in the Twin Cities every night and asked every person you ran into if they knew him, you could count up to 100 and not find a single one that would have a bad thing to…

Kurt Vile's sixth studio album, 'b'lieve I'm goin down...' delivers a singer-songwriter album in rock record's clothing.

Following last night's prime-time Emmy Awards, a lot of people are talking about television this morning. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention television or TV shows? Send us your requests.

On Sunday afternoon at Coffman Memorial Union, several Vietnamese/Asian-American advocates met to plan a demonstration against the Canadian post-punk band Viet Cong, who are playing a show on Thursday night at the 7th Street Entry. The band had just announced plans to change their name—but with the name change not set to take effect until an undetermined point…

Bobby Vinton's 'Blue Velvet' topped the singles chart; Jeannie C. Riley had a hit with the country song 'Harper Valley PTA'; Barry White scored his one and only No. 1 single; Dire Straits had a video-powered hit song; and Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher was born in Greater Manchester, Today in Music History.

When Ryan Adams started dropping hints that he wanted to cover Taylor Swift’s entire new album—1989—song for song, at first it seemed like a joke. Then, though, things got real—and now the album is here, Ryan Adams’s 1989 in its entirety. There’s nothing offhand about the finished product, which is as fully produced as Adams’s own latest…

When Buddy Guy named Gary Clark Jr as the potential savior of the blues, that had to create some pressure. Clark's follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2012 debut took three years, and the result displays Clark's blues influences as well as his other inspirations. 'The Story of Sonny Boy Slim' is in fact, the story of Gary Clark Jr. And it's a very good read.