Alicia Keys

Drake unveils 2013 U.S. tour dates with Miguel -- Minneapolis in October

Chart-topping hit-maker Drake has been generating plenty of excitement and anticipation for his forthcoming new album, Nothing Was the Same, with each hot new single released. And now, the Grammy-winning Canadian rapper has just announced a large-scale U.S. tour in support of his new record, and he' ... More >>

Maroon 5

The 2013 Grammy Awards played it safe and got it wrong

If the Grammy Awards are indeed 'Music's Biggest Night,' then it's no wonder that the industry itself is in so much trouble. Despite the Academy's best efforts in recent years to draw the "alternative" music fan into the mainstream self-congratulatory love fest that is the Grammys -- even going so f ... More >>

Incubus at The Myth, 5/9/2012

IncubusThe Myth Nightclub, MaplewoodMay 9, 2012Not many bands are brave enough to take the stage with no opener to warm up the crowd, but alt-rockers Incubus needed no segue for their almost two-hour set that shared songs from all of their albums. With eyes closed and lost in his own world, lead sin ... More >>

Did Bon Iver back out of Grammys' Etta James tribute?

​The painful Grammy Awards press releases would be reason enough not to take part in the yearly award show, but Bon Iver's Justin Vernon decided to opt his band out of performing at the event because a collaborative effort wouldn't cut it. One of our readers responded by advising Vernon to get&nbs ... More >>

Bon Iver "kind of said 'f*ck you' a little bit" to the Grammys

​The real reason that Bon Iver won't be performing during the Grammy Awards on February 12 has nothing to do with an ugly poster and a dusty promotional commercial. According to newly announced Sasquatch headliner and this weekend's Saturday Night Live musical guest Justin Vernon, the communicatio ... More >>

Magic 1530AM trying to bring urban radio back to the Twin Cities

​Click. Record. Click. Stop. Wait. Repeat. That was the custom of most kids my age back in the late eighties to the mid-nineties, sitting on the floor of your bedroom with the boom box resting on your knees and waiting, sometimes hours, for them to play your jam just so you can record it on a blan ... More >>

The Grammys: The good, the bad, and the really, really awkward

​Perhaps the biggest surprise from this year's Grammy Awards broadcast is that there are actually some honest-to-god surprises to report, the biggest of which was notoriously indie artists Arcade Fire coming out on top in the Album of the Year category.Here, we present a rundown of some of the mos ... More >>

Kanye West flips cocktail party guest list into overloaded, blah single

​If there's a Guinness record for "most pop artists performing on a pop single," it's probably held by "We Are The World" or its lame-ass sequel from earlier this year. But "All of the Lights" - the fourth single from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - boasts a longer and more random guest list t ... More >>

Prince honored with BET's 'Lifetime Achievement' award

​Prince took the stage at last night's BET Awards to accept his award for "Lifetime Achievement," and gave a sincere and humble speech to the shrieking crowd. "I was pretty wild in my younger days," Prince said, grinning sheepishly. "You don't have to do what I did, you don't have to make any of t ... More >>

The Decemberists, Dave Matthews, many more record music for Haiti

Many sites are offering free, exclusive music in exchange for Haiti donations.

Video of the day: St. Cloud guys spoof Jay-Z, Alicia Keys

East of the Dakotas, dont hate the north state/Thank us for Scotch tape, home of ten thousand lakes.

The Songs We Can't Escape

En Vogue are still awesome, endorse Obama

Critics' Picks: Tokyo Police Club and more

What's Playing

The Top 10 Songs This Week on B96

Angelique Kidjo

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What's Playing

The top ten tracks this week on KTTB, B96 FM

Concert Highlights for the Week of June 20-26

What Garry Didn't Know

This week: Larry Sanders, Smokin' Aces, The Last King of Scotland, and Overlord

Amy Winehouse: Back to Black

Reggaetón Animal

Immigrant dreams, dirty dancing, and the revolution: Meet the new Latin hip hop of Maria Isa and Danny y Elliot

City Planner: Friday 11/10

Party Girl

DJ Girl Talk is the maddest scientist in the mash-up lab

Ramblin' Man

Anti-techie Bob Dylan makes a great chill-out album

KMOJ's Top 89 Songs of 2005

We Got Us

They write their own songs. They play their own instruments. For 19 years, they've stuck together. The rise and fall -- and rise -- of St. Paul's greatest R&B band, Mint Condition.

John Legend

"Used to Love U," "Ordinary People," "Number One"

The .14 Cent Solution

New royalties proposed by the music industry threaten to kill independent Internet radio

Radio Radio

We search the airwaves for signs of intelligent life

The Year in Music

The Sound of Music, 2001: Our Favorite Things

Short Cuts

Pop Quiz

Putting young R&B singers Alicia Keys and Blu Cantrell to the test

Who Is JonJon Scott?

Defining black music with a departing record impresario