Negishi was in his 40s when he came up with the idea of prototyping a mass-produced, coin-operated karaoke machine, branded "Sparko Box" in 1967.

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs resulting from one-off collaborations do you want to hear?

Every Friday around 11 a.m. on Radio Heartland, we pull a special track from the archives or from deep in the shelves to spotlight a particular artist or song. This week, we spotlight a groundbreaking Black artist in country music, Charley Pride.

This week on the Chart Show, Waxahatchee’s “Right Back To It” feat. MJ Lenderman rises to No. 1, while new songs by Kacey Musgraves and IDLES make their Chart Show debuts.

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what power pop songs do you want to hear?

Justis Brokenrope’s vinyl collection of Native artists is bringing generations of music to new audiences on social media. The collection he’s built over the last decade includes about 300 records by Indigenous artists from various genres — mostly country, folk, rock from the 1960s through the late 1980s.

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that were recorded by artists with amazing mullets?

Remo Drive, The Local Show's Artist of the Month, visited Diane to talk about their new LP, Mercy.

The Andrews Sisters — LaVerne, Maxene, and Patty — grew up on the northside of Minneapolis and began singing together as children, huddled around the family piano in their Minneapolis home.

The pop crooner was behind some of the biggest power ballads of the 1970s and '80s. His wife said he died in his sleep.