Today's top music news stories include an update on the kids from Soul Asylum's 'Runaway Train' video, David Bowie emoji, and sad news about an Afghan Whig.

'I just have the strangest feeling that when I'm out shopping,' writes Mary Lucia. 'I leave the house with a false sense of being invisible.' Mary describes times she's run into people she knows while running errands - and how it feels like a disruption in the universe.

Courtney Marie Andrews' new album, 'Honest Life', contains songs influenced by regulars for whom she poured drinks at a neighborhood bar in Washington state while trying to make a living as a singer-songwriter. Now touring in support of her album, Courtney Marie Andrews found time to sing some of her songs for us in the Radio Heartland studio.

A week ago we featured bands from Chicago and Cleveland to commemorate the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago Cubs going head to head in Game 1 of the World Series. Tonight is game 6, and if Cleveland wins, they'll win the world series. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention Cleveland or Chicago?

Tomorrow, Nov. 2, Congressman Keith Ellison is hosting a Get Out the Vote Concert at Aria. The goal of the event is to emphasize the importance of the upcoming election, and to remind Minnesotans to get out and vote. Dessa, Jeremy Messersmith, Aby Wolf, Sophia Eris, and DJ Shannon Blowtorch will perform at the event, which will also feature…

The Beatles went to No. 1 for the 13th time; U2 set up a video link; Elvis Presley hit No. 1 for the first time in 7 years, and Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers was born, Today in Music History.

On our Local Current blog, we often write about local music venues. We wanted to add a touch of visual flair to our coverage, so we asked Minneapolis illustrator Allegra Lockstadt to create original illustrations of eight venues. Allegra explains the thinking behind her approach: I wanted to create a really romantic feel to these.…

The duo of Slug and Ant, along with their touring DJ Plain Ole Bill, came by the Current's studios to perform songs off their new album, Fishing Blues, and talk about their long and prolific career.

Unsurprisingly, Prince costumes were all over yesterday — and one child dressed as the late music icon was serenaded with a “Purple Rain” chorus by none other than President Barack Obama himself as the First Family welcomed trick-or-treaters to the White House. When @barackobama sees your nephew dressed as Prince & starts singing Purple Rain!…

Remixes are everywhere these days. The attention a well-made version might bring an artist is hard to overstate; just ask Lilly Wood & The Prick, who saw their “Prayer In C” hit number one on dozens of 2014 charts after Robin Schulz remixed it, or Tove Lo, whose career arguably took off thanks to Hippie…