Today's top music news stories include Peter Dinklage's 'punk-funk-rap' band history, a new Grandstand attendance record, and the decisive rejection of a handful of would-be Prince heirs.

Pop/soul talent Lady Lark brought her full band to the Minnesota State Fair, recording a Local Show session at Dan Patch Park and inciting a dance party in the process.

Artists heard on The Current are frequently featured on late-night TV. With September upon us, many programs are returning to regular production schedules. This week's lineup includes Gary Clark Jr., Royal Blood and The National.

This week's DJ Pick of the Week from Mark Wheat is from the The Fall's 'Brillo De Facto' from their 32nd studio album, 'New Facts Emerge'.

This morning we played Aretha Franklin's "Baby, I Love You" for our Vinyl Tap pick, and no one can deny that Aretha is "The Queen of Soul". So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear from artists who have well-known nicknames?

It's tough to think of a rock band as ferocious as Husker Du that has been more badly served by its recording history. Chicago label the Numero Group has taken the band's early material and given it the treatment it deserves.

The Beatles topped the charts; RHCP picked a guitarist; and R.E.M. swept the VMA's, Today in Music History.

Chris Strouth knew the drill: rattle off some hipster jargon, make some odd jokes and shine a light on the coolest local bands that nobody else was paying attention to. It was all part of his gig on What., a St. Paul Neighborhood Network (then called Cable Access St. Paul) show from 1993-1995. It was…

Of the images from the original run of Twin Peaks that David Lynch and Mark Frost incorporated into the just-concluded third season, the most telling wasn’t Laura Palmer correctly predicting that she and Agent Cooper would meet again in a quarter-century, or David Bowie’s Agent Jeffries warning about “Judy.” It was a brief shot, seen from…

Radio Heartland is giving you the chance to see Joan Osborne in concert on Friday, Sept. 8, at the O'Shaughnessy Auditorium in St. Paul.