The Girls Rock Camp Foundation is raising funds for girls’ music education by selling prints of their campers remaking the covers of classic albums by artists such as David Bowie, Kendrick Lamar, and U2. Their remake of Blondie‘s Parallel Lines cover stars the niece of Beth Ditto (Gossip). (Pitchfork) Vladimir Putin called Elton John—no, for real this time. After a pair of…

Adams' '1989' recognizes a rock lineage born of a woman. He's not legitimizing Swift's work — he's figuring out how her voice can validate and include his.

Josh Homme and Jesse Hughes' new album may have taken seven years to make, but it still sounds as if they'd jumped out of a plane and recorded it on the way down.

Around the same time that Calgary-based punk quartet Viet Cong are pulling up to the 7th St. Entry and starting to load in their gear for their show tonight, nearly 200 members and allies of the Vietnamese-Minnesotan community (enough to fill the Entry, if this were a different show), will begin a peaceful protest march through…

For local musician Ben Weaver, the conventional ways of touring and performing were just not cutting it. The typical tour van and concert setup did not allow for Weaver to connect with his audiences in the way he wanted to. So, he did something a little unconventional: he decided to ride his bike to his…

Gary Louris, best known for his work with the Jayhawks, has a new project. The newly formed band, Au Pair, is an unlikely collaboration between Louris and Django Haskins from Old Ceremony. The pair met in Chicago in 2013 while playing as a part of a tribute concert to Big Star’s Third. Au Pair’s first single, “In Every Window,”…

Following a landmark ruling about the song 'Happy Birthday to You,' for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention 'birthday'? Send us your requests.

Bob Dylan completists, heads-up: it doesn’t get much more complete than this. Vol. 12 of Dylan’s official “Bootleg Series” will cover the years 1965 and 1966, and the collection’s most expansive edition will include every single take of every single song from Dylan’s seminal albums Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde on Blonde. Other…

MPR News Arts Reporter Marianne Combs joins Jill Riley and Sean McPherson to talk about some really intense and creative arts happenings, including a one-woman show that explores beauty, and an event where six writers share their own endings to favorite novels.

Beach House vocalist Victoria Legrand couldn’t stop thanking the audience for being at the show—and through their enthusiastic approval of every song, the crowd echoed the sentiment. After an understated set from opener Jessica Pratt, the Maryland-based duo took to the stage for a second night in a row, following up Tuesday’s sold-out show with another…