Morning Edition: Music

The title track to that record was an unusual hit.

Smith grew up in Detroit Lakes, and played in the Twin Cities music scene for years. Local fans were upset when she decided to relocate to L.A. several years ago, but Smith has said it was one of the best moves she’s ever made for her career.

Twin Cities artist Matt Allen, known on stage as Nur-D, moved to Rosemount from the Bronx as a child. He told The Current he was a nerd as a kid and didn’t think hip-hop was for him. But then he started rapping about two years ago, and he quickly hit it big.

Here in the Twin Cities, there's a tribute concert Friday at the Turf Club in St. Paul. You're out of luck if you're looking for tickets, though. It's sold out.

Meshell Ndegeocello will kick off the series next month.

The band told Billboard that they fed their back catalog of more than 80 songs – plus a library of lyrics they liked – into machine learning models as source material.

Their January residency has become a nearly annual tradition for the Twin Cities band.

The Star Tribune’s music critic has called Parker “the best Twin Cities female singer you’ve never heard.”

The song by B.J. Thomas was featured in the movie “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.”

Emelie Sandé and the Bryan Ferry Orchestra jazzed up Beyoncé’s “Crazy in Love” for the 2013 movie version of “The Great Gatsby.”