Today's top music news items include New Year's Eve performances by Mariah Carey and Paul McCartney, as well as Sleater-Kinney paying tribute to George Michael and David Bowie.

Hurray For The Riff Raff's next album, 'The Navigator,' is expected on March 10, 2017. Its lead single, 'Rican Beach,' sounds nothing like anything the band have recorded before. 'Rican Beach' is Bill DeVille's DJ Pick of the Week for Jan. 2, 2017.

The Lemon Twigs debut album leans away from the synth-driven soft rock that's trendy with their peers and instead celebrates the most familiar riffs and rhythms of bands like Wings, Big Star and Supertramp. 'Do Hollywood' is our Album of the Week.

We asked, you voted! All December long, you -- the local music lover -- voted for your favorite Minnesota songs released in 2016, and the results are in!

In an hour-long special, MPR News host Tom Weber looks back on the year we lost Prince: his busy final months, the day of his tragic death, and the avalanche of tributes and celebrations that followed. What does 2017 have in store for Prince's legacy and estate?

Lil Yachty is from nowhere near the Midwest — the “bubblegum trap” star hails from Atlanta — but he’s basically a hometown sweetheart thanks to his song “Minnesota.” Today, St. Paul’s Allan Kingdom dropped a remix of our state’s eponymous song, laying throaty raps over the plinky beat and shouting out Purple Rain. The first lines? “I been…

Staying up until midnight on Dec. 31 can be a tough task -- particularly for the little ones! That's why Rock the Cradle Radio has set up a New Year's countdown every hour on the hour starting at 5 p.m. And Mac Wilson has recorded a stream-able New Year countdown you can listen to at any time. Happy New Year from The Current and from Rock the Cradle Radio.

Today in Music History: Bob Dylan recorded two songs for his 'Blood on the Tracks' album at Studio 80 in Minneapolis, "Hello, Goodbye" by The Beatles was the No. 1 single in the country; Emerson, Lake & Palmer broke up; today is the birthday of not one, but two of The Monkees.

We asked, you voted! All December long, you -- the music lover -- voted for your favorite music videos released in 2016, and the results are in!

We asked, you voted! All December long, you -- the local music lover -- voted for your favorite Twin Cities concerts of 2016, and the results are in!