Short and sweet, clocking in at just two minutes and 40 seconds, Peter Wolf Crier’s single “Don’t Leave” rings out like a clarion call to fans of the band: Come back. They are back. And they have recaptured the sound and spirit that made us fall in love with them in the first place. The song will…

2015 marks the ten-year anniversary of B-Girl Be, a series of events intended to highlight female contributions to hip-hop. The anniversary will be celebrated with an exhibit at Intermedia Arts, opening today and being celebrated with an overnight opening reception on Saturday night. B-Girl Be was founded in 2005 under the auspices of Intermedia Arts, a Minnesota…

The latest person to be recognized with a star on First Avenue‘s iconic wall is Slim Dunlap, a local singer-songwriter who’s well-known as a member of the Replacements. Since 2012, Dunlap has suffered adverse health in the wake of a severe stroke, and local musicians have rallied to raise funds for Dunlap with projects including…

In February, Jack White realized his dream and got coffee with “Weird Al” Yankovic. Now, Yankovic has stopped by White’s Third Man Records in Nashville to record a bizarre chant in the store’s make-your-own-record booth. The chant is a multi-song medley that Yankovic and his band typically perform live as part of the song “Yoda.” Yankovic’s review…

At The Current, we love music and we also love books about music. In partnership with MPR’s The Thread, we’ve started a new series we’re calling The Current’s Rock and Roll Book Club. Each month, we’re picking a book about the music we love, and one of our staff members is sharing his or her take on the…

Saturday, June 13 will bring Northern Lights.mn’s fifth annual Northern Spark event to six zones of Minneapolis; according to the website, every post-dusk visitor can expect to see “the city in a whole new light.” For the uninitiated: Northern Spark is a free all-night arts festival that will take place on Saturday night from 9:00…

Before this week, I’d never been to two concerts on the same day before, much less two concerts by the same band. But on a first-time-for-everything Tuesday, June 9, I got to see two Purity Ring performances. During both the 5:00 and 9:30 p.m. shows, visitors to First Avenue’s Mainroom enjoyed the music, nodding along…

This July, legendary local label Amphetamine Reptile Records is hosting a bash celebrating its 30th anniversary with special headliners the Cows. The two-day festival will take place in the Grumpy’s Downtown parking lot on July 10 and 11. The rest of the lineup consists of the Melvins, Run Westy Run, Les Butcherettes, Hammerhead, Gay Witch Abortion and Hepa-Titus. The show will mark the first time…

In 1977, the Sex Pistols signed with Virgin Records. The long evolution of the Virgin brand now includes a bank called Virgin Money, which has announced that it will offer a pair of Sex Pistols credit cards. “The Sex Pistols challenged convention and the established ways of thinking,” Virgin Money’s card director told The Guardian, “just as…

Tolliver: Rave Deep Jonathan Tolliver has moved to Los Angeles, but he’ll be back in Minneapolis this Friday night for a show at Icehouse celebrating Rave Deep, a solo EP he’s releasing as Tolliver. The EP features Tolliver’s falsetto flying over burbling electronic tracks, miles away both musically and thematically from the buoyant soul of…