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December 08, 2020

Watch Sounds Like Home IV in its entirety, featuring virtual performances from Minnesota musicians, including Monica LaPlante, Miloe, Tina Schlieske, Lupin, Freaque, Ro, Mixtape for the Milky Way, and Muja Messiah.

Sounds Like Home IV: Virtual performances celebrating Minnesota music

Sounds Like Home IV: Virtual performances celebrating Minnesota music

Jesse Wiza • Dec 8, 2020

Watch Sounds Like Home IV in its entirety, featuring virtual performances from Minnesota musicians, including Monica LaPlante, Miloe, Tina Schlieske, Lupin, Freaque, Ro, Mixtape for the Milky Way, and Muja Messiah.

Top 89 of 2020: Mary Lucia, host

Top 89 of 2020: Mary Lucia, host

Mary Lucia • Dec 7, 2020

Host Mary Lucia shares her favorite songs of 2020.

Coffee Break: Dylan through the ages

Coffee Break: Dylan through the ages

Dec 7, 2020

Bob Dylan has worked out a deal with Universal Music Publishing Group to sell his entire catalogue of 600 songs. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, let's take a walk through this catalogue.

Curtiss A’s 40th anniversary John Lennon tribute to be livestreamed from First Ave

Curtiss A’s 40th anniversary John Lennon tribute to be livestreamed from First Ave

Jay Gabler • Dec 7, 2020

“Hey man,” Steve Brantseg remembers saying to Curtiss A in the mid-1980s. “I know all those Beatles songs. If you’ve got space for another guitar player, I’d love to do it.” Three and a half decades later, and 40 years since Curtiss A’s spontaneous original tribute concert on the day John Lennon died, Brantseg (also…

Bob Dylan sells songwriting catalog to Universal for estimated $300 million

Bob Dylan sells songwriting catalog to Universal for estimated $300 million

Jay Gabler • Dec 7, 2020

Bob Dylan, the boy born in Duluth who went on to create what the New York Times calls “one of the music world’s ultimate jewels” and the Associated Press calls “rock ‘n’ roll’s holy grail” has sold that jewel, that grail, for an estimated $300 million. In what the music world is calling a “blockbuster…

Album of the Week: Margo Price, 'Perfectly Imperfect at the Ryman'

Album of the Week: Margo Price, 'Perfectly Imperfect at the Ryman'

Bill DeVille • Dec 7, 2020

It's been nine months since most of us have seen a live concert. Virtual concerts are all well and good, but there is nothing like the real thing. In 2018, Margo Price triumphed at her homecoming residency at country music's mother church, the Ryman Auditorium, in Nashville. I sure would have loved to have attended one of them. Thankfully the shows were documented.

Top 89 of 2020: Sean McPherson, host

Top 89 of 2020: Sean McPherson, host

Sean McPherson • Dec 5, 2020

The Current/Purple Current host Sean McPherson shares his favorite songs of 2020.

'It just feels like the show in a great way': John Munson on New Standards holiday album

'It just feels like the show in a great way': John Munson on New Standards holiday album

Jay Gabler • Dec 5, 2020

The New Standards have a new live album, aptly titled 'The New Standards Holiday Show Album.' 'I just love the recording so much,' said Munson. 'It's got so many of our musical friends playing on it, and it just feels like the show in a great way.'

Coffee Break: Munson Love Time

Coffee Break: Munson Love Time

Jill Riley and Anna Weggel • Dec 4, 2020

Jill will be joined by John Munson today to talk about the New Standards new Holiday Show album. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear for Munson Love Time?

Remembering Leah Ottman, Minneapolis violinist and vocalist

Remembering Leah Ottman, Minneapolis violinist and vocalist

Cecilia Johnson • Dec 4, 2020

Leah Ottman, a Minneapolis musician who performed under the name LOTT, passed away at the age of 33 on Wednesday. Her cause of death has not been made public. LOTT debuted as a solo artist in 2014, releasing the single “Parking On The Grass” via Homestead Records. LOTT Music · Parking On The Grass In…

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