Which songs will dominate summer playlists on radio, social and streaming platforms? Avid fans and followers of pop music know that by late spring most of the candidates are already climbing the ...

Forty years before the Amazon holiday commercial featuring shipping boxes singing the song, Supertramp’s “Give a Little Bit” already started on its long legacy as a song of unity through unsteady ...

Left to right: John Munson, Jacob Slichter and Dan Wilson of Semisonic performing at The Current's 18th Anniversary Weekend on Jan. 27 at First Avenue in Minneapolis. NINA MOINI: Well, if you haven't ...

Looking back at the year in music, it was very much a “Golden” age. But, demon hunting aside, did it also count as golden with a small G? As we dived through our favorite music of 2025 to consider ...

Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson wrote some of the catchiest pop rock melodies of the late ‘90s, not the least of which was 1998’s seemingly omnipresent smash single “Closing Time.” Since the band’s last ...

Semisonic, the Nineties rock outfit behind the perennial late-night anthem “Closing Time,” are back with a new song, “The Rope,” which will appear on their first album in over 20 years, Little Bit of ...

"Closing Time" guys Semisonic, led by the accomplished and wide-reaching songwriter Dan Wilson, have a pair of new songs out today — their first new music in three years. The soft-but-sprightly ...

Sparks (brothers Ron and Russell Mael) are releasing a new album, MAD!, this Friday via Transgressive. Now they have shared the album’s fifth single, “A Little Bit of Light Banter.” Watch the lyric ...