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R&B legends Tony! Toni! Toné! on why their hits are still popular

R&B legends Tony! Toni! Toné! on why their hits are still popular

R&B icons Tony! Toni! Toné! will perform Friday and Saturday nights at the Minnesota State Fair. But first, they stopped by the stage at Dan Patch Park to talk with Angela Davis and 1A host Joshua Johnson about some of their hits.
by Julie Siple and Angela Davis

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Cideries, breweries tap into Duluth’s expanding music scene

Cideries, breweries tap into Duluth’s expanding music scene

In the past six years, there has been a boom of breweries and cideries opening up in the city. Seven new taprooms have sprung up in that time, and as the numbers have grown, so has the local music scene.
by Simone Cazares

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The Lizzo booty backstory begins in Burnsville

The Lizzo booty backstory begins in Burnsville

Lizzo's Minnesota ties went next level, when the biggest thing on her stage at Monday’s VMAs was an inflatable booty that was made in Minnesota.
by Jana Shortal

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10 things you might as well know about the 2019 VMAs

10 things you might as well know about the 2019 VMAs

Monday night's MTV Video Music Awards telecast brought viewers lots of Taylor Swift and Missy Elliott, not to mention Lizzo, Normani, Lil Nas X, Rosalía and more.
by Stephen Thompson

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Minnesota group to be part of 400th anniversary of slavery commemoration

The Twin Cities-based group The Sounds of Blackness will be in Hampton, Va. this weekend to participate in a commemoration of 400th anniversary of the first enslaved people arriving from Africa in what would become the United States. There are a series of events planned at Fort Monroe which is near where the first ship arrived. The Sounds of Blackness and Common will be featured in a concert that will take place tomorrow night. MPR News’ Tim Nelson caught up with the group as it rehearsed this week and talked to music director Gary Hines.

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Women: Opera's Domingo abused power to sexually harass them

Women: Opera's Domingo abused power to sexually harass them

For decades, Placido Domingo, one of the most celebrated and powerful men in opera, has tried to pressure women into sexual relationships by dangling jobs and then sometimes punishing the women professionally when they refused his advances, numerous accusers told The Associated Press.
by The Associated Press

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Twin Cities live performers Davina and The Vagabonds launch studio album

Twin Cities live performers Davina and The Vagabonds launch studio album

Davina Lozier says her jazz- and blues-influenced music is genre-defying, nods to decades of music history and contains "a hum of sadness.” Davina and her band The Vagabonds celebrate the release of their new album "Sugar Drops" at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis Monday.
by MPR News Staff

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Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker dies at 94

Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker dies at 94

D.A. Pennebaker, the Oscar-winning documentary maker whose historic contributions to American culture and politics included immortalizing a young Bob Dylan in "Don't Look Back" and capturing the spin behind Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign in "The War Room," has died. He was 94.
by The Associated Press

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