Janet Jackson and Stevie Nicks are among this year's nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Also in the news today: Taylor Swift makes waves on voting rolls, music piracy is still a thing, John and Alice Coltrane's house has been designated historic, and a viral video highlights a surprising connection between Billy Joel an LMFAO.

This week, Mary Lucia talks about the significance of the Hold Steady playing two shows at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis.

Jon Langford is a true renaissance man: a musician, a visual artist, a producer. Founder of the Mekons and a student and propagator of Americana and roots music, the Welsh-born, Chicago-based Langford stopped at The Current for a fun and free-flowing conversation with Mary Lucia.

Before her appearance with Maceo Parker at the Funk-N-Roll Weekend, Candy Dulfer talks with Sean McPherson about Minneapolis, what it's like to work with Prince and Maceo Parker, and her drive to become her own musician.

This morning, Jill and Brian played Dandy Livingstone's "Rudy, A Message To You" from 1967 but you might know The Specials' 1979 version of the song much better. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that are more successful covers of an original song?

PJ Harvey was born; Ray Charles had a hit with 'Hit the Road, Jack'; Glen Campbell did some session guitar work for the Beach Boys; Sean Lennon was born on his dad's birthday; Beethoven inspired a disco hit; and John Lennon was born in Liverpool 75 years ago Today in Music History.

A statue honoring the late Chris Cornell has been unveiled in Seattle. Also today: Taylor Swift has broken her political silence to endorse Democratic candidates, Nirvana's surviving members reunited, police are investigating charges against Liam Gallagher, '80s stars are going on tour together, and Will Ferrell himself gave Chris Martin more cowbell.

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Hailing from Little Falls, Minn., Michael Shynes was living a pretty normal life as an artist, creating new music and trying to make a career as a local singer-songwriter work. Then, this past summer, Shynes’s audience grew unexpectedly to extend way beyond the state and across the world. It all started when Shynes recorded music for…

Jim Lauderdale is a Nashville icon ... and he's also a very friendly, normal guy. Lauderdale recently released his latest album, 'Time Flies,' and he stopped in to the Radio Heartland studio to chat about his work and to play some songs from the new record.