We've been hearing Jack Campbell's name for more than two years. Whether it be disbelief of his age and the caliber of music he has been making, or whether it be about how central he is to the growing visibility of the Duluth music community, Jack seems like a hot topic.

  Monday, August 19 Aby Wolf, Grant Cutler, and Zoo Animal Loring Park, Minneapolis 7 p.m., free, all ages For the final installment of the Walker’s Music & Movies series in Loring, producer Grant Cutler will team up with two inventive songwriters and vocalists to present a showcase of their latest collaborations. The 70-minute show…

On this week’s Local Show, we devoted most of the two-hour episode to spinning cuts of many of the big Minnesota releases due out this fall. If you missed it, you can listen to the entire show archived here, or browse many of the highlights below—complete with streams of the songs we played on the…

Happy Friday! If your day is anything like mine, then you’re itching to get up out of your swivel chair and into the sunshine at one of this weekend’s many outdoor shows. Here’s a handful of fresh local videos to help make the time creep by a little faster… Jack Campbell Something tells me there’s…

Tuesday, August 6 Jeremy Messersmith 7th St. Entry, Minneapolis 7:30 p.m., sold out, 18+ With his new record in the can, recent Glassnote Records signee Jeremy Messersmith will showcase some of his new material at the Entry tonight. The album’s title and full track listing hasn’t been revealed, so the show will offer up one…

Most weeks, the Friday Five is packed with shiny new videos from Minnesota’s best and brightest filmmakers. We’ve certainly had an embarrassment of riches lately, with more and more new directors picking up steam and churning out batches of commercial-grade videos. But one of the great things about the prevalence of video technology is that…

Tuesday, July 30 Moon & Pollution (opening for Heloise & the Savoir Faire) 7th St. Entry, Minneapolis 8 p.m., $10, 18+ It says a lot about the strength of Moon & Pollution that the only gig they’ve played to date was opening for Atmosphere and Trampled by Turtles at Bayfront Park in Duluth. The new…

Whether you attend shows all the time or only make it out every now and again, chances are you’ve noticed some changes going down at First Avenue. The big star repainting that happened in 2010 caught a lot of people’s attention (and led to some outcry, as fans questioned which artists would remain and which…

Monday, July 22 Old Knifey Amsterdam Bar and Hall, St. Paul 9 p.m., free, 21+ The tag line on tonight’s event pretty much says it all: “Hard luck country, born on a West Duluth bar stool.” Duluth-based, alt-country influenced songwriter Old Knifey will be in town to perform his first show in St. Paul. Mary…

MPR News Arts Reporter Marianne Combs joins The Current's Steve Seel and Jill Riley to talk about Bike Night (and cuttlefish) at the MIA, a comic-book retrospective at MCAD, and three reasons to consider a road trip to Winona, Minn.