The innovative keyboardist and co-founder of Emerson, Lake & Palmer died on March 10 at age 71.

Rumblings about a possible new Radiohead album increased as the band announced a 16-date world tour that will begin May 20 in the Netherlands. The band say these will be their only headlining shows this year. The tour’s three U.S. shows include two at L.A.’s Shrine Auditorium and one at Madison Square Garden. (Pitchfork) Pitchfork pays tribute…

Michelle Leon, a founding member of Babes in Toyland, tells her story in a new memoir. You can enter for a chance to win a copy from The Current!

Elvis Presley was passed over; Elton John had a hit with "Crocodile Rock"; and Roxy Music had their only No.1 single, Today in Music History.

Happy Pi Day! It's a day for us to recognize π: the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, commonly approximated as 3.14159. So for today's Coffee Break, let's listen to songs that reference "circles".

Elvis Presley was passed over; Elton John had a hit with "Crocodile Rock"; Roxy Music had their only No.1 single; and the Beatles dominated the top of the charts, Today in Music History.

Although Iggy Pop found increasing success as time wore on, he never quite returned to the promise of his two 1977 albums. Until now. 'Post Pop Depression' is one of Iggy's best.

Saturday night, social media lit up when Prince unexpectedly joined a Ray Charles tribute concert led by local rocker Mick Sterling at the Chanhassen Dinner Theatres. Even some members of the band, apparently, didn’t see it coming when Prince stepped onstage to play a guitar solo. “You’ve got to be kidding me,” Scottie Miller, a pianist who was…

Each week on the Local Show, we’ll meet a new person from the Minnesota music community who has some fresh discoveries to share in a feature called “Ask a Cool Person.” These people will come from all corners of the scene, including record store clerks, recording studio engineers and producers, artists, writers, bookers, photographers, and…

This week on the Local Show, we’re paying tribute to Vixen, which is widely regarded as St. Paul’s first all-female rock band. As a high school student in St. Paul, Jan Kuehnemund started an early version of the band in 1973 with three other girls. By 1984, she moved the project to California, where the “classic” ‘80s lineup…