Star Tribune music critic Jon Bream has just published a new book, Dylan: Disc by Disc. It’s our pick this month for The Current’s Rock and Roll Book Club, and Bream stopped by our studios to record an interview with David Campbell. Hear selections from the interview, and the songs discussed in it, tonight on The…

Happy Friday! I hope you guys like salads, because we’re going to kick things off this week with a whole bunch of ’em… Bad Bad Hats I CAN’T. STOP. IT’S TOO MUCH. L’Assassins To celebrate a new song they co-wrote with Suburbs frontman Chan Poling, L’Assassins conjured all the fiery spirits and traveled back to the Stone Age to…

I can still remember the first time I heard alt-J: I was a senior in high school cruising through the suburbs in my parents’ Honda. I’m sure I’m not the only one to remember my first alt-J experience, because the band’s music has a game-changing quality. Hearing their first album was really a defining moment for many music…

The Who have postponed their 50th anniversary tour due to Roger Daltrey‘s viral Meningitis. Among the rescheduled shows is a planned visit to Target Center, which was originally scheduled for Oct. 10. “I am now on the mend and feeling a lot better but I am going to need a considerable time to recover,” says…

It’s not a joke—or, if it is a joke, it’s a joke you’ll soon be able to listen to in its entirety. Ryan Adams has announced that his entire song-for-song cover of Taylor Swift‘s album 1989 will be available digitally on Monday. For her part, Swift is ecstatic. “Ryan’s music helped shape my songwriting,” she tweeted. Hear Adams’s cover…

I bought concert tickets to see Blur play in London’s Hyde Park months before I actually secured airfare to the UK. When the Britpop legends recently announced that they were releasing their first new album in 12 years, The Magic Whip, and would headline a British Summertime show in June to coincide with the release, I…

Three organizations representing Vietnamese-Minnesotans have written a letter asking First Avenue to cancel the band Viet Cong‘s upcoming 7th Street Entry show, and further asking representatives of the venue to meet with them to discuss “how we can heal and move forward together.” Currently, 201 people have added their names to a letter written by the Vietnamese Student Association…

Keith Richards says the Rolling Stones recently held a group meeting and made “definite plans” to record a new album—though the specifics of where and when are yet to be determined. Which just makes you wonder: what else is on the agenda when the Rolling Stones have group meetings? (Rolling Stone) A psychedelic Porsche formerly owned by Janis Joplin will be…

When I first met Angie Carlson at the Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival last July, I knew her as the Indigo Girls’ trusted publicist (watch the folk-rock duo answer Three Quick Questions at the Current Haus here). At the festival, I saw Carlson coordinate meetings and guide her musician clients to interviews. What I didn’t…

91,000 cans of Metallica-branded Budweiser are coming to Quebec, commemorating the band’s Sept. 14 and 16 Quebec City shows—which will be the last in the slated-for-demolition Colisée Pepsi and the first in the new Centre Vidéotron, respectively, so they’re kind of a big deal for Quebecois. Metallica Budweiser will arrive in stores (in Quebec) starting Sept. 28.…