Andrea Swensson and Evan Clark look back on a year of recording jazz and jazz-influenced artists for their After Hours series.

According to Nielsen Music, the singer's stratospheric success with 25 made her the year's top-selling artist by far -- even though 25 was available in only the last six weeks of 2015. And it was another year of growth for vinyl.

The City of Minneapolis Department of Community Planning and Economic Development has submitted a report on the upcoming renovation of Target Center, and it features updated renderings of how the downtown venue could look when long-planned renovations are complete. The report is being presented to the City Planning Commission for consideration at a meeting next week. Updated…

The largest jackpot in U.S. history is up for grabs this weekend. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, send us your suggestions for "lucky" songs.

MPR News Arts Reporter Marianne Combs joins Jade and Sean McPherson to talk about three happenings in the local art world.

Ardis Wells and the Rhythm Ranch Gals occupied Minneapolis nightclub The Flame on a nightly basis in the 1950’s and ‘60s.  Within the shifting lineup, longtime band members included Fern Dale, who previously performed with famed Minnesotan trio The Andrews Sisters, as well as Jan North and Patti Williams, who later performed as the North Sisters…

Black Sabbath released 'Paranoid'; Led Zeppelin's 'In Through The Out Door' went platinum; Nirvana performed their final concert in the U.S.; Oasis started recording their debut album 'Definitely Maybe', Today in Music History.

Five local bands kick off the New Year on the chart; Kurt Vile bounces back; Lucinda Williams, Sufjan Stevens and Animal Collective make debuts; and Wolf Alice start 2016 on top.

As all great rock bands do with great rock records, Spoon has reissued their fifth studio album to mark the 10th anniversary of its release, and the deluxe two-CD box set could be yours with The Current's Gimme Fiction giveaway!

Motörhead fans are circulating a petition to have one of four newly created heavy metal elements be named “Lemmium” after the late Lemmy Kilmister. Normally, new elements must be named after “a mythological concept, a mineral, a place or country, a property or a scientist,” but fans argue that since a star has already been named…