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September 16, 2021

A slow-moving chart this week graduates three tracks into the Chart Show Hall of Fame. Japanese Breakfast, Leon Bridges, and Garbage all hit ten weeks on the chart with four more songs poised to reach HOF status next week.

The Chart Show: Leon Bridges & Lorde Enter Hall Of Fame

The Chart Show: Leon Bridges & Lorde Enter Hall Of Fame

Sep 16, 2021

A slow-moving chart this week graduates three tracks into the Chart Show Hall of Fame. Japanese Breakfast, Leon Bridges, and Garbage all hit ten weeks on the chart with four more songs poised to reach HOF status next week.

Listen to Looch: run to watch Spike Lee's 'NYC Epicenters'

Listen to Looch: run to watch Spike Lee's 'NYC Epicenters'

Mary Lucia • Sep 15, 2021

Mary Lucia says Spike Lee's HBO documentary series gives you as close an answer to why and how events in 2020 unfolded the way they did.

Soul Asylum's Dave Pirner "surprised and delighted" by Prince's cover of "Stand Up And Be Strong"

Soul Asylum's Dave Pirner "surprised and delighted" by Prince's cover of "Stand Up And Be Strong"

Sean McPherson • Sep 15, 2021

We caught up with Soul Asylum frontman Dave Pirner about performing in the age of Covid, and what it felt like to hear Prince covering "Stand Up And Be Strong," which appears on the posthumous Prince album 'Welcome to America'.

Coffee Break: New Wave

Coffee Break: New Wave

Jill Riley and Christy Taylor • Sep 15, 2021

One of New Wave's founding fathers, Ric Ocasek of the Cars died on this day in 2019 at the age of 75. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what New Wave bands do you want to hear?

Geese - Low Era

Geese - Low Era

Sep 15, 2021

Geese - Low Era

Crooners to remember Rondo as Fridley supper club branches into musical revues

Crooners to remember Rondo as Fridley supper club branches into musical revues

Jay Gabler • Sep 14, 2021

After adapting to welcome Covid-era audiences with drive-in concerts and other innovations, Crooners Supper Club is expanding its live music programming to include musical revues. A venerable tradition, revues incorporate songs into story-oriented frameworks that draw on performers’ acting skills as well as their musical chops. With that in mind, Crooners could hardly have a…

Playlist: Meet Diane, host of The Local Show

Playlist: Meet Diane, host of The Local Show

Sep 14, 2021

Diane is the new host of 'The Local Show,' and we're so glad to have her. Enjoy this sampler of Diane's favorite tracks!

Coffee Break: Neo-Soul

Coffee Break: Neo-Soul

Jill Riley and Christy Taylor • Sep 14, 2021

On Amy Winehouse's birthday, we remember her for her music and how she blended her deep vocals and an eclectic mix of musical genres, including soul, rhythm and blues, jazz, and reggae, to create her own special version of neo-soul. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what neo-soul artists do you want to hear?

Announcing the winner of the 2021 Tiny Desk Contest

Announcing the winner of the 2021 Tiny Desk Contest

Bob Boilen • Sep 14, 2021

Picking one winner from thousands of amazing entries wasn't easy. But one singer-songwriter rose to the top, with a song about rooting yourself in nature that stopped our judges in their tracks.

George Wein, music festival pioneer, dies at 95

George Wein, music festival pioneer, dies at 95

Walter Ray Watson • Sep 13, 2021

A founder of the Newport Folk Festival, the Newport Jazz Festival and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival -- and perhaps the most important jazz impresario of all time -- died Monday.

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