Prairie Public Music News

Whether she's riffing on geography, topography or history, Bismarck-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Kris Kitko's got a catchy North Dakota-themed singalong song you can dance to! They'll be on full display Saturday evening in downtown Fargo at the 2020 edition of the Celebration of Women and Their Music at The Spirit Room. She stopped by our studios for a preview .

A church in Mexico built a statue of the Baby Jesus that many on the internet are freaking out about because it resembles Phil Collins. Alison Krauss will be honored at a White House ceremony tonight, where President Trump will award her the National Medal of the Arts. But it's unclear whether she will show up. Spotify has announced its own awards show as a counter to the Grammys, that seems to focus on music from Latin America. And on Tuesday, Ireland's Central Bank will unveil a commemorative

Minneapolis rap & soul superstar Lizzo leads the 62nd Grammy nominations with eight, including for Record and Song of the Year and Best New Artist. Others with multiple nominations include Bon Iver, Lana Del Rey and Vampire Weekend. The awards ceremony will be televised on CBS in January. Yo La Tengo's annual Hanukah concerts in New York City have inspired Verve's new collection, Hanukah Plus . Joining Yo La Tengo on the album are The Flaming Lips and HAIM, who cover a Leonard Cohen song.

It took David Byrne six decades to become a U.S. citizen, and he doesn't take the privileges that come with it for granted. And so, during his recent American Utopia concerts and Broadway run, he set up a table in the lobby to register voters. He also used a spotlight during the show to illustrate that only 20 percent of those eligible usually show up at the polls. Jewel Kilcher has released her first new music in four years, a piano ballad that accompanies a documentary she co-produced with

David Glimour, Bill Wyman, Steven Tyler and Fargo's own Jonny Lang are set to join Mick Fleetwood and Christine McVie at the Palladium in London in February for an all-star tribute to early Fleetwood Mac guitarist and singer Peter Green. The man behind the original "Black Magic Woman" before Santana had a hit with it, "Man of the World," the instrumental "Albatross" and more, was a dominating blues guitarist in the late 60's, earning praise, especially for his tone, from BB King and Eric Clapton

It's an Mmmmmboppin Halloween for the California sister trio HAIM, or for a day, HAIMson. Este, Danielle and Alana dress up in blonde wigs as Isaac, Taylor and Zaz for a mimed rendition of Hanson's mega catchy hit in a new video. "Baby It's Cold Outside" gets a badly needed update and transforms a creepy-at-best holiday (shunned?) staple into a loving ode to consent in a new version by John Legend & Kelly Clarkson. Keith Richards may own the title of Rolling Stone with Nine Lives, but his

Lee Rocker of the Stray Cats, whose rockabilly style stood out in the MTV era of spandex and synthesizers, pays tribute to his vintage rock instrument and some of the other "cats" who play upright bass on his new single, "Dog House Shuffle." Baltimore electronic dance party maestro Dan Deacon, no stranger to lyrical death themes to contrast his upbeat, blippy sound, has a creepy new video out in time for Halloween that shows a decomposing woman getting eaten by maggots and beetles and then

Hip-hop icon, social justice activist and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Chuck D has been named the recipient of the 2019 Woody Guthrie Prize by the Woody Guthrie Center, in Tulsa, OK. The Public Enemy rapper, born Carlton Charles Ridenhour, was noted for, like the folk legend, holding truth to power and for shining a light on social and political issues, particularly those that impact African Americans. French band Phoenix recall in a new memoir their nearly disastrous appearance on Saturday

Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Brandi Carlile has dropped out of Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit taking place in DC this week, because of the participation former Department of Homeland Security Secretary, and overseer of President Donald Trump's controversial family separation policy at the southern border, Kirstjen Nielson. Longtime and influential UK post punk band WIRE is back in 2020 with a new album. Aussie psych-rockers Tame Impala hint at a new album with strange video on their

A group of musicians, including Thom Yorke and David Byrne have admitted they're climate hypocrites in an open letter to journalists, who have called them out for being exactly that. They say, while they individually need to do better and the industry as a whole has to change the way they operate, they will not be silenced when it comes to speaking out in the battle to fight climate change. Beck has premiered two new songs off his forthcoming album Hyperspace , including a funky new number