Today In Music History: A "Revolution" To Sell Shoes Jul 28, 2014Jerry Lee Lewis and Mick Jagger were on film, one of the largest festivals happened, and The Beatles and Yoko joined forces.
Local Current BlogPrince and 3RDEYEGIRL play surprise Paisley Park show on the eve of “Purple Rain” 30th anniversaryJay Gabler • Jul 27, 2014“30 years ago today,” acknowledged Prince with a sly smile as the artist who’s previously downplayed the occasion’s significance segued from “Let’s Go Crazy” into “Take Me with U” on Saturday night at Paisley Park. Just a week after making my first-ever visit to Paisley Park, I was again invited out to Chanhassen last night—along with 176,000…
Local Current BlogPrince’s Purple Rain turns 30: Looking back at the iconic Minneapolis filmAndrea Swensson • Jul 25, 2014Looking back at July 1984, it’s hard to believe just how many musical events shook up Minneapolis and continue to inspire and mystify us 30 years later. In just the span of a few short months Hüsker Dü would release their revered album Zen Arcade, the Replacements would drop Let It Be, and Prince would…
Local Current BlogPaisley Park: My first visit to Prince’s music mecca, courtesy of 3RDEYEGIRLJay Gabler • Jul 20, 2014Technically speaking, Saturday night wasn’t my first visit to Paisley Park—Prince’s studio and performance space in Chanhassen, Minnesota. I’d been there a couple of months ago, with the okay of the management, to take external photos of the facility. Paisley Park at night, though, is a whole different story. For one thing, it’s purple. “Whoa!”…
Local Current BlogEste Haim opens up about her Prince obsessionJay Gabler • Jul 11, 2014Prince is our Local Current Artist of the Month this July, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Purple Rain. When Haim visited the Current’s studios in May, Este and Alana Haim talked about their passion for Prince—Este goes so far as to call it an “obsession”—and the time Alana thought the band were about to…
Today in Music History: The Police Force Prince to End Early Jul 8, 2014The Monkees dumped Jimi Hendrix, Beck was born, and Prince was forced off the stage Today in Music History.
Local Current BlogArtist of the Month: PrinceJay Gabler • Jul 1, 2014When you live in Minnesota, trying to understand the magnitude of Prince’s accomplishment is kind of like trying to talk about the sun when you’re standing on it. Here’s a story that helped me get my mind around the extent of Prince’s musical celebrity. When Michael Jackson agreed to play a set of wildly-anticipated comeback…
Local Current BlogPrince and 3RDEYEGIRL share new music at late-night Paisley Park rendezvousAndrea Swensson • Jun 26, 2014Prince is funny. That may sound like too basic a descriptor for one of the most iconic, eccentric, and enigmatic pop artists of our time, but after spending several hours with him last night at Paisley Park I was left thinking that he is really, really funny. It’s rare that more than five minutes goes by without Prince…
Local Current BlogSorry, Prince did not actually inspire Disney’s “Let It Go”Jay Gabler • May 2, 2014An article being passed around the Internet claims to have verification from the writers of “Let It Go,” the hit Oscar-winning anthem from Disney’s Frozen, that they were inspired by Prince’s 1994 song “Letitgo” and in fact shared a demo with the artist, adding the line “the cold never bothered me anyway” after Prince made that…
Local Current BlogPrince’s Spanish luxury villa can be yours for just eight million dollarsJay Gabler • Apr 28, 2014It’s Prince’s house of pain, but it can be your new dream home: a 13-room villa on the coast of the Alboran Sea in southern Spain. “Music Star Prince’s Villa IN Marbella West For Sale!” enthuses the listing on LuxuryEstate.com. “Love Your Dreams…and Live Your Dreams!” Don’t expect to find any 3RDEYEGIRL merch or Super…
