The Blenders, a Minneapolis-based vocal quartet, returned to the Pantages Theatre on Friday to kick off their Christmas tour. Tim Kasper, Ryan Lance, and brothers Allan and Darren Rust are all originally from Fargo and have been singing and touring for 27 years. They launched their career by doing the college circuit, singing a cappella. They…

Hamilton, the Broadway musical Michelle Obama calls “the best piece of art in any form that I have ever seen in my life,” is coming to Minneapolis. We just have to wait a couple of years. Producer Jeffrey Seller and the Hennepin Theatre Trust — the nonprofit organization that manages the Orpheum Theatre and three other…

This weekend, Bob Dylan will be honored with a Nobel Prize in Literature at a ceremony in Sweden. He won't be attending, but he will be providing a speech to be read on his behalf, and Patti Smith will perform Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall." So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what Bob Dylan songs and covers do you want to hear?

Neil James Innes was born, Billy Joel went No. 1 with "We Didn't Start The Fire", Darren Robinson died of a heart attack, and Chic went No. 1 with "Le Freak".

Atmosphere, “A Long Hello” “After a forever of running around the world and making music, we will now take a month off to sit on the beach of our minds,” Slug says in a recent press release. He and Ant (well, a cardboard cutout) wade into the surf as they bid you “A Long Hello.”…

“We wrote the lyrics in, like, 45 minutes,” Lydia Liza told Andrea Swensson this week when she and Josiah Lemanski visited our studios to sing their new version of the holiday standard “Baby It’s Cold Outside.” The two never guessed that their recording would become a viral hit, resonating with listeners around the world who disliked…

Lots of Prince news today - from stories shared by his friends to the latest developments in his estate.

To enter your just need to post a video reciting or singing your favorite Bob Dylan lyrics with your best impersonation on Twitter or Instagram with hashtag #BobDylanIsLit!

In the late 1950s, Johnny Cash recorded a number of tracks translated into the German language for his label at the time, CBS Records. Although some of the tracks were released in the U.S. on a compilation in 1978, they are not widely known on this side of the Atlantic. 'Johnny Cash makes German sound a bit more musical, and it sounds perfectly natural coming out of his mouth,' says The Current's Bill DeVille. Listen to the tracks and get the back-story behind these songs.

We're thinking about John Lennon today, who was shot and killed on this day in 1980. John would have been 76 had his life not been taken 36 years ago. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what John Lennon songs and covers do you want to hear?