Today's top music news stories include Lady Gaga rocking the Super Bowl, new Bob Marley live recordings uncovered, and Black Sabbath saying goodbye.

Last month marked 25 years since Super Bowl XXVI was played in Minneapolis - a first for Minnesota and only the second time the big game had been held in a cold weather winter city. The game goes down in memory for including what now plays as a very outdated and even ridiculous halftime show.

On Feb. 4, 2007, Prince took the stage at Dolphin Stadium for what would become remembered as one of the greatest Super Bowl halftime shows ever. “There was a feeling that nobody knew what surprise this sexy MF would bust out next,” writes Rolling Stone. “At a high-profile event like the Super Bowl, it was…

For her latest video, singer Gillian Welch is stranded in a dry town with 'no beer, no liquor for miles around.' The song 'Dry Town' is on Welch's latest release, 'Boots No. 1 The Official Revival Bootleg,' and the video uses stop-motion animation to tell the story.

The first Friday in February means it's Bubblegum Day. We're going to take a spin on this theme for today's Coffee Break and focus on music that is categorized as "bubblegum pop"

Paisley Park has announced its latest weekly concert screening: tomorrow night, the Chanhassen venue will present a show from Prince’s Musicology Live 2004ever tour. The American tour promoted Musicology, the then-latest in Prince’s string of occasional major-label releases interspersed among indie projects like Xpectation and N.E.W.S. (both 2003). The album was Prince’s biggest hit since Diamonds and Pearls (1991) — due…

Today in Music History: The Beatles started work on their new single "Lady Madonna", Elton John started a three-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with "Crocodile Rock", Pearl Jam began their first-ever European tour and Buddy Holly, JP Richardson (aka The Big Bopper) and Ritchie Valens, along with pilot Roger Peterson, died in a plane crash shortly after takeoff from Clear Lake, Iowa.

Jessica Manning, “Homestead” Jessica Manning‘s first music video, “Homestead,” sounds lush and inviting, even as it plays with chilly desaturated purples. Directed and edited by Cherith Simmons, the video certainly deserves a watch; also, keep an eye out for Manning’s What If I Run release show at Icehouse on Feb. 11. Grant Cutler, “Georgia” Grant Cutler (tiny…

It’s been a long wait for new music from Romantica. The band made a big splash back in 2007 with the release of their second album, America, which wove frontman Ben Kyle’s experiences as an Irish-American into a tapestry of upbeat alt-country and gave him the opportunity to share a stage with one of his…

The music world is preparing for the Super Bowl: the game, the halftime show, the ads.