Today's top music news stories include Sampha winning the Mercury Prize, a new kidney for Selena Gomez, and Lady Gaga being hospitalized.

On Wednesday night in Nashville, Tenn., the Americana Music Festival hosted its 16th annual Americana Music Association Honors and Awards show, which showcases and honors the artists working in the many genres of American roots music. See the list of honorees as well as Instagram highlights from The Current's Bill DeVille, who was in attendance in Nashville.

Grant Hart of influential St. Paul trio Husker Du, alternative rock band Nova Mob, and his own extensive solo career, has passed away at the age of 56. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you hear that feature the singing, songwriting or drumming of Grant Hart?

Last night, Minnesota singer-songwriter Grant Hart — best known as a member of Hüsker Dü — died at age 56. While the legendary band’s three members have had ups and downs since the group dissolved in the late 1980s, they were recently in touch to support the upcoming release of a box set chronicling the…

Jet released 'Get Born'; Stevie Wonder topped the album chart for the second time; David Bowie won Video of the Year at the first MTV Video awards; and Amy Winehouse was born -- and later commemorated with a statue -- Today in Music History.

Producer Steve Albini is selling three microphones used by Nirvana during the 1993 recording sessions for In Utero at Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. One Electro-Voice PL20 and two Lomo 19A9s used to record Kurt Cobain’s vocals and Dave Grohl’s drums are going up for auction at Reverb.com next Thursday, Sept. 21 — the 24th anniversary…

He co-founded, wrote songs for, and drummed in the influential St. Paul trio Hüsker Dü, inspiring legions of bands with his raw and poetic charm. He went on to form the alternative rock band Nova Mob, and would write and record several criminally under-appreciated and beautiful solo albums. And he was held in the softest…

Today's top music news stories include the death of Jessi Zazu, a Tegan and Sara covers collection, and a super-deluxe Gene Simmons set.

Ahead of their double header at St. Paul's Palace Theatre on September 15 & 16, Spoon bounce back to the top of the chart.

The consumer site WalletHub has declared Minnesota the Happiest State in America, just above Utah and Hawaii. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what happy songs do you want to hear?