Over the weekend of May 15 to 17, The Current hosted Sounds Like Home: a virtual festival of Minnesota music. Watch Dave Simonett's performance from that festival.

Music fans have been longing for the return of live concerts - and now they're back, but with the coronavirus pandemic still raging, artists and audiences are searching for ways to be together while not being TOO close together.

“I don’t celebrate birthdays, so that stops me from counting days, which stops me from counting time,” said Prince in an interview with Dutch TV host Ivo Niehe in 1999. Prince was born in Minneapolis on June 7, 1958 and although the icon didn’t always celebrate the occasion, fans have largely embraced the date as…

Let's put together a set of music today for our hero healthcare workers that are stepping up to help out when they are needed most. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear for healthcare workers?

If you have a music video you’d like to be considered for an upcoming feature, send it my way at fridayfive [at] mpr.org! Graveyard Club – “Dreamland” Graveyard Club’s nostalgic 80s synth-pop influenced jams are as cinematic as ever in their video for “Dreamland.” Here, a man is haunted by memories of an ex-lover, shown…

Over the weekend of May 15 to 17, The Current hosted Sounds Like Home: a virtual festival of Minnesota music. Watch Faith Boblett's performance from that festival.

Over the weekend of May 15-17, The Current hosted Sounds Like Home: a virtual festival of Minnesota music.

Devo's helmet face shields are just the tip of a growing iceberg of music merch designed with safety in mind. Also today: a distinctly defensive album announcement from Lana Del Rey, guitarist Jorge Santana dies at 68, Ice Cube says Mr. Rogers once sued him, and Sia announces her directorial debut.

Enough about me...let's talk about you. What songs do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break that say "you" in the title?

Capturing performances from Price's star-making 2018 residency at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, 'Perfectly Imperfect At The Ryman' feels like a relic from a time gone by.