MINNEAPOLIS — While many of us have our favorite holiday movies or TV specials, almost everyone can say they have a favorite (and likely least-favorite) holiday song. In Minnesota, the overall ...

Snoop Dogg released a new Christmas song about Minnesota ahead of his halftime performance at the Vikings/Lions game on Dec. 25. The song, “Christmas in Minnesota,” was released on Christmas Eve. The ...

Should Minnesota have a new official state song? Or maybe two of them? A group of five bipartisan state senators have introduced a bill that would make both Prince's "Purple Rain" and Bob Dylan's ...

Minnesota lawmakers have put forth a bill that would enshrine tunes from the state's two biggest musical legends as official state songs. A bill introduced in the state Senate last week would make ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. American folk-rock singer-songwriter Bob Dylan performing at BBC TV Centre, London, 1st June ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. NINA MOINI: I know you know this jam. It's our daily theme music here on Minnesota Now, and this weekend marks four years since MPR News kicked off this ...

Having his 1984 hit “Purple Rain” named one of the state songs of Minnesota “would have meant so much” to Prince, his sister Sharon Nelson told a state Senate committee Tuesday. “It was more than just ...

st. paul -- What song comes to our lips when we think about Minnesota? There's always "Hail! Minnesota," composed more than a hundred years ago and the official state song for more than 60 years. Alas ...

Long before it was recorded, folk music served as a way to keep stories and ideas alive. As such, music has always played an important part in protests, from Woody Guthrie to Bad Bunny. So it’s not a ...

Earlier this week Oklahoma made a major statement when the Sooner State named The Flaming Lips' "Do You Realize?" its official rock song. This is odd for several reasons - that a state with a rich ...