On November 5, Chris Koza woke up in Niagara Falls with a sore throat. Koza couldn’t imagine worse timing than the morning of his first show on Ingrid Michaelson’s Lights Out: Stripped Tour. “I can’t talk at all,” he whispered. “I can’t believe this is happening.” But with the help of a cold kit that…

Babes in Toyland’s Kat Bjelland, Lori Barbero, and Maureen Herman have announced their first live show together in 18 years. The influential punk trio will play the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles on February 12. In what’s being described as the Fontanelle-era lineup—Herman joined the band on bass after founding member Michelle Leon left the group in 1992—Babes…

A Mac DeMarco concert Friday night at the University of California—Santa Barbara ended with the “Salad Days” singer detained by police after he climbed into the ceiling beams of a campus venue called The Hub. Earlier, campus police had interrupted the show to arrest two concertgoers for “moshing and resisting police officers,” reports the Santa Barbara…

Mark Kozelek of Sun Kil Moon performed in Duluth last night. It was his second of two nights performing in the port town (the night prior he played an unannounced set at Fitger’s Brewhouse along with Alan Sparhawk—these things just seem to happen in Duluth). Given the controversy Kozelek has courted in recent weeks with…

If you missed out on tickets for tonight’s very sold-out show by the groundbreaking U.K. artist FKA twigs at the Fine Line, there will be another chance to see her in town this weekend. As she hinted on Twitter yesterday, she will be playing a gig tomorrow night at Paisley Park as part of the venue’s…

In the imaginative film Flood Tide, Minneapolis-based folk band Dark Dark Dark set sail down the Hudson River on seven large-scale junk sculptures. Created in collaboration with the artist Swoon, the production illustrates the group’s 2008 voyage as they attempt to build their own world with art and music. Layers of documentation, fiction, and mythology are…

Happy Friday! The first half of this week’s batch of videos leans heavily on folk and Americana sounds, but don’t think for a second that all these beautiful melodies and acoustic guitars are going to add up to something boring. In fact, if you take your psychotropics now, they’ll probably start to kick in just as we…

Up-and-coming soul singer PaviElle French will perform as part of this season’s Naked Stages program at Pillsbury House Theatre. In her one-women performance piece, Runnin’, PaviElle uses song and storytelling to discuss her life growing up in St. Paul’s historic Rondo neighborhood. Her playwriting debut, Runnin’ is part of a series of plays she is writing to “release her life’s demons and get free,” according to a press…

Fortunately all passengers are safe despite an accident involving Bono‘s private Learjet: according to the Irish Daily Mail, the plane was over Germany when the passengers heard a thud from the rear of the aircraft. They landed in Berlin just a few minutes later and “were horrified to learn that the compartment at the rear of…

The documentary David Bowie Is will be screened for a second time at the Lagoon Cinema next Wednesday, Nov. 19. The film gives a tour of the Bowie-centric exhibition, covered here by Sarah Harper on assignment for the Current, which opened in September at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and will be on display there through…