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May 24, 2017

Today's top music news stories include a look inside Prince's FBI file, stars paying tribute to Bob Dylan, and continuing Chris Cornell memorials.

Music News: FBI releases Prince's file

Music News: FBI releases Prince's file

Jay Gabler • May 24, 2017

Today's top music news stories include a look inside Prince's FBI file, stars paying tribute to Bob Dylan, and continuing Chris Cornell memorials.

Curtiss A at the Ramberg Senior Center, and more free music at the 2017 Minnesota State Fair

Curtiss A at the Ramberg Senior Center, and more free music at the 2017 Minnesota State Fair

Jackie Renzetti • May 24, 2017

The Grandstand gets the big names, but it’s the entertainment at smaller stages across the grounds that gives the Minnesota State Fair the right to call itself “Minnesota’s biggest music festival.” The fair has just released the lineup for this year’s free (with fair admission) stages, and it’s a doozy. National artists on the lineup…

Minnesota’s Jesse Larson takes fourth place on ‘The Voice’

Minnesota’s Jesse Larson takes fourth place on ‘The Voice’

Erianna Jiles • May 24, 2017

Last night, Minneapolis’s Jesse Larson took fourth place on NBC’s The Voice. This week Larson performed a few selections including Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” (with his coach, Adam Levine) and Chris Stapleton’s “Woman.” For his solo he performed “Takin’ it to the Streets” (the Doobie Brothers), and he also sang a memorable duet with fellow bald-and-beautiful artist, and…

Preview: Tenth Soundset to spotlight trap

Preview: Tenth Soundset to spotlight trap

Cecilia Johnson • May 24, 2017

“Gucci Mane is playing Atmosphere’s festival, and it doesn’t even feel weird at this point,” Stereogum wrote about Soundset’s 2017 line-up, and that about sums it up. This Memorial Weekend as every Memorial Weekend for the last ten years, Soundset will bring monumental artists to Minnesota (at the State Fairgrounds for the second year running).…

Music News: Solidarity and sorrow after Manchester concert attack

Music News: Solidarity and sorrow after Manchester concert attack

Jay Gabler • May 23, 2017

Musicians and fans are expressing solidarity and support for their peers in the wake of a deadly attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England.

Mary Lucia: with Low Cut Connie, a Dirty Picture is worth a thousand words

Mary Lucia: with Low Cut Connie, a Dirty Picture is worth a thousand words

Mary Lucia • May 23, 2017

After Low Cut Connie visited the studio earlier this week to record a session that will air on Saturday, May 27, Mary Lucia says seeing the band -- and its charismatic leader, Adam Weiner -- put on such a powerful performance 'restored her faith' in rock and roll.

The seven iconic pop songs that defined Roger Moore’s James Bond era

The seven iconic pop songs that defined Roger Moore’s James Bond era

Jackie Renzetti • May 23, 2017

Roger Moore, the British actor best known for playing the most tongue-in-cheek of James Bonds, has died at the age of 89. For music fans, it’s impossible to think about James Bond movies without recalling the epic theme songs that accompany each film. Moore was Bond in seven films (1973-85), a longer tenure than any other…

Watch Jesse Larson and Adam Levine perform ‘Let’s Go Crazy’ on ‘The Voice’

Watch Jesse Larson and Adam Levine perform ‘Let’s Go Crazy’ on ‘The Voice’

Jackie Renzetti • May 23, 2017

During last night’s final live performances on the current season of The Voice, Minnesota native Jesse Larson and his coach for the show, Adam Levine, paid tribute to Prince with “Let’s Go Crazy.” It was one of three songs Larson chose to give viewers, whose voting results will be announced tonight. Viewers could vote with an…

Back from New Mexico, Mary Bue talks about residencies and crowdfunding

Back from New Mexico, Mary Bue talks about residencies and crowdfunding

Hanna Bubser • May 23, 2017

Singer-songwriter Mary Bue recently finished up a three-month residency in Taos, New Mexico as an artist-in-residence at the Wurlitzer Foundation. The longtime Duluthian, now based in Minneapolis, talked with Duluth Local Show host Mike Novitzki about her experience with residencies, and the challenges and triumphs they provide. Having just released an acoustic version of her acclaimed…

Apparent suicide bomber at Ariana Grande concert kills 22

Apparent suicide bomber at Ariana Grande concert kills 22

Gregory Katz and Jill Lawless • May 23, 2017

An attack that appears to have been a suicide bombing has taken the lives of 22 at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England.

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