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October 12, 2017

Today's top music news stories include the release of a Linkin Park Carpool Karaoke episode, the official reopening of Target Center, and AMA nominations.

Music News: Linkin Park share Carpool Karaoke recorded days before Chester Bennington's death

Music News: Linkin Park share Carpool Karaoke recorded days before Chester Bennington's death

Jay Gabler • Oct 12, 2017

Today's top music news stories include the release of a Linkin Park Carpool Karaoke episode, the official reopening of Target Center, and AMA nominations.

New music: Surf punks FIJI-13 share 'Splash Rash / Ragin' Love'

New music: Surf punks FIJI-13 share 'Splash Rash / Ragin' Love'

Cecilia Johnson • Oct 12, 2017

FIJI-13's EP 'Heavy Breathing' comes out on Friday, October 13, and they'll celebrate at the Triple Rock the next night. Here's their new single "Splash Rash / Ragin' Love."

Coffee Break: Good morning!

Coffee Break: Good morning!

Anna Reed • Oct 12, 2017

Good morning! We're looking for songs for today's 9:30 Coffee Break that say good morning or talk about morning things - breakfast, coffee, waking up, sunshine, etc. Help us wake up with a tasty selection of tunes.

Cory Wong celebrates debut album, recorded live on video

Cory Wong celebrates debut album, recorded live on video

Colleen Cowie • Oct 12, 2017

Minneapolis guitarist Cory Wong is having a CD release show for his debut album, Cory Wong and the Green Screen Band, at Icehouse on Oct. 20. The album, which he released at the end of September, was no easy feat: it features over 20 different musicians and seven of the tracks are accompanied by music videos that spotlight…

Today in Music History: Happy Birthday, Martie Maguire

Today in Music History: Happy Birthday, Martie Maguire

Oct 12, 2017

Martie Maguire was born; Chrysler attempted putting record-players in its automobiles; the Beatles recorded the first pop song featuring sitar; Rod Stewart and the Faces played their last show; and John Denver died at age 53 near Monterey, Calif., Today in Music History.

Contents of Prince’s Vault vacated from Paisley Park to Los Angeles, angering some heirs

Contents of Prince’s Vault vacated from Paisley Park to Los Angeles, angering some heirs

Jay Gabler • Oct 12, 2017

After 30 years, Prince’s legendary library of audio and video recordings — his “Vault” of largely unreleased music — has left the building. The building in question is Paisley Park, the Chanhassen studio where Prince did much of his recording and rehearsal after it was constructed in the mid-1980s, and where he was living in…

The Chart Show: Minnesota's Hippo Campus rise up the chart

The Chart Show: Minnesota's Hippo Campus rise up the chart

Mark Wheat • Oct 12, 2017

Chart Show constituents came out in support this week for hometown heroes Hippo Campus, and debut entries also came in from Nashville's Margo Price and North London's Wolf Alice.

Music News: Lionel Richie plans Curtis Mayfield biopic

Music News: Lionel Richie plans Curtis Mayfield biopic

Jay Gabler • Oct 11, 2017

Today's top music news stories include a planned Curtis Mayfield biopic, Eminem attacking President Trump in a freestyle rap, and the White Stripes plotting cassette reissues.

Beyoncé pays tribute to Prince: ‘He dared to fight for what was rightfully his’

Beyoncé pays tribute to Prince: ‘He dared to fight for what was rightfully his’

Jay Gabler • Oct 11, 2017

Beyoncé has penned a foreword to Prince: A Private View, a forthcoming book of photographs by Afshin Shahidi. The photographs themselves, of course, are stunning — documenting Prince in settings ranging from Tokyo to Morocco to Paisley Park, coupled with Shahidi’s recollections. Given how rare public statements of any kind by Beyoncé are, though, it’s her…

Photos: Tash Sultana gets real at the Cedar

Photos: Tash Sultana gets real at the Cedar

Cecilia Johnson • Oct 11, 2017

If millennials demand transparency, it’s no wonder we love Tash Sultana. People of all ages have gotten attached to the 22-year-old Australian, of course, but there’s something quintessentially Tumblr-generation about her and her honesty. Who else knows they’ll be cheered on after telling journalists about their drug-induced psychosis? The mental-health issues that pushed them to cancel…

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