First Aid Kit stay on top for the third week in a row; Modest Mouse make the biggest jump on the Chart this week, up 16 places; back after a month's absence is Sleater-Kinney at #20. Here's this week's Chart Show recap!

From June 11-14 in Manchester, Tennessee, Atmosphere will represent for Minneapolis’s Southside and Trampled By Turtles will represent Duluth at Bonnaroo. The annual music festival announced the first wave of its lineup yesterday via an innovative method—fans had to call a phone number to learn who was in the lineup, one artist at a time—that…

This past weekend my girlfriend and I made a quick road trip to catch the last day of the David Bowie Is exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, after watching the associated documentary. I came away with a wealth of new insight into the chameleonic pop star, but the fact that really stuck in my brain…

Earlier this month, Minneapolis expat Paul Thompson took to Pitchfork’s blog The Pitch to sum up our hyperactive hip-hop community, declaring that, “Minnesota Nice is well established, but 2014 was the year for Minnesota Weird in the Minneapolis-St. Paul hip-hop scene.” His assessment—and the artists he chose to highlight—got a lot of people talking here…

2014 has been a year to remember in the Minnesota music scene, and we’ve covered as much of it as we possibly could on our Local Current blog. Below, I’ve chosen a few notable quotes from people who we’ve covered on the blog this year. Click on each image to go to the story where…

You, the music lover, have spoken (more specially, watched). Of the in-studio sessions The Current has hosted in Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser studio at Minnesota Public Radio, here are the top videos of 2014, as viewed by you!

Dylan Days, the annual Hibbing celebration of the Iron Range city’s most famous former resident, has been put on “indefinite hiatus,” with the event’s organizing committee disbanding. According to a statement from the committee, they are stepping aside and encouraging fans to focus on the annual Duluth Dylan Fest instead, with some associated events to be…

N.E.R.D—the group consisting of Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo, and Shay Haley—haven’t made an album since 2010, before Pharrell’s rise to superstardom on the basis of songs like “Happy” and “Blurred Lines.” They just reunited to make a new song, though. What got the band back together? Hint: he lives in a pineapple under the sea. N.E.R.D’s “Squeeze Me”…

Happy Friday! Here’s your weekly look at the latest in Minnesota music videos, starting off with one of my favorite releases of December… RONiiA I think I’ve watched this video at least five times already; the music and the imagery coalesce to create an ode to nostalgia, coming of age, and the restless ennui of tweendom. RONiiA (which…

Anticipating the release of her sophomore album Lustrous, Duluth resident Sarah Krueger stopped by The Current studio to perform tracks off the new record and to chat with the Local Show's host David Campbell.