Friday, June 13 Stone Arch Bridge Festival Kick-Off Water Power Park, Minneapolis 6 p.m., free, all ages Country and roots aficionados the Cactus Blossoms, Frankie Lee, and Mike Munson perform down at Water Power Park to help kick off the three-day Stone Arch Bridge Festival, which will bring over a 100 musicians and 250 visual…

What will be the songs of the summer this year—the new songs that people will be playing as they enjoy relaxing in the warm weather? Last week, staff at the Current shared our picks, and we invited you to share yours. You weighed in on our site, on Twitter, and on Facebook. Here are some…

“I know what it feels like to know that it’s time to share with others on another level, and not have the proper connections, know-how or resources to be able to do it,” says Kristoff Krane in a press release. “Carnage opened that door for me when he vouched for me back in the day…

This may sound oversimplified, but Paris is a long way from home. Technically it’s something like 4,203 miles, but once you get way up in the air and peer down at the ocean out of that airplane window it’s hard to think about things in terms of a distance that can be measured; the journey…

Update: Metro Transit has announced that due to the stormy weather, outdoor events are canceled. The Current’s party at Union Depot is continuing as scheduled, taking place indoors. June 14 is a big day for Twin Cities transit: it marks the opening of the highly anticipated Green Line connecting the downtowns of St. Paul and Minneapolis.…

Courtney McClean and the Dirty Curls: This One’s For Dad Just in time for Father’s Day, Minnesota’s most ribald bluegrass band are releasing a new record featuring suggestive jams such as “When Baby Becomes Legal” (“…I’ll be 54”), “Dirty Talk” (“you bore me with your dirty talk; every time we make love I’m watching the clock”),…

From A Mighty Wind to Inside Llewyn Davis, the 60s folk revival has proven fertile ground for fiction and spoofery. The latter is much in evidence in Guided By Voices‘ video for “Bad Love is Easy to Do,” the lead single from their new album Cool Planet. The video, which premiered today on Funny or Die, casts comedians…

The wall of stars: First Avenue’s massive monument to notable past performers is a landmark in its own right. As the venue prepares to celebrate its 45th anniversary next year, we’re setting out to tell the stories of the artists whose names decorate the side of Minneapolis’s iconic rock venue. First up are the punk-rocking triple…

Happy Friday! It’s a picture-perfect summer day here in the Twin Cities, and anyone who manages to stay indoors until quitting time today deserves some kind of major bonus. Here’s a handful of hot-off-the-presses Minnesota music videos to make the end of the work week scoot by a little faster… Trampled by Turtles With their…

Almost a year to the day CHVRCHES first stepped in The Current studios, the Glasgow electronic three piece returned to the Twin Cities for a show at First Avenue. CHVRCHES