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Top 89 of 2020: Kelsey, assistant program directorKelsey • Dec 8, 2020Assistant Program Director Kelsey shares her favorite songs of 2020.
Coffee Break: Lennon coversJill Riley and Anna Weggel • Dec 8, 2020Today we are remembering John Lennon, who was shot and killed on this day in 1980. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what Lennon covers do you want to hear -- both Beatles and solo?
Sounds Like Home IV: Virtual performances celebrating Minnesota musicJesse Wiza • Dec 8, 2020Watch 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, hostMary Lucia • Dec 7, 2020Host Mary Lucia shares her favorite songs of 2020.
Coffee Break: Dylan through the ages Dec 7, 2020Bob 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 AveJay 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 millionJay Gabler • Dec 7, 2020Bob 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'Bill DeVille • Dec 7, 2020It'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, hostSean McPherson • Dec 5, 2020The 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 albumJay Gabler • Dec 5, 2020The 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.'