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…

Minnesota Public Radio will once again set up camp at the corner of Judson and Nelson for a series of live broadcasts by all three stations. As in past years, the Current’s Mary Lucia and Mark Wheat will broadcast live each weekday afternoon and evening, with special guests ranging from Macklemore and Ryan Lewis (who…

This year, we’ll be spotlighting a prominent Minnesota musician or band each month with our new Artist of the Month feature. You’ll be able to hear a variety of songs from throughout the artists’ career on both the Local Current stream and the Local Show, and you can read more about the artists’ history and their role in…

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…

News broke this morning that the Fine Line Music Café, which just celebrated its 25th anniversary hosting live music and events in Minneapolis’s Warehouse District, has been sold to the newly branded Minneapolis Event Centers arm of entertainment company Entourage Events Group. Fans of the Fine Line are already speculating what this will mean for…

Foxygen’s first headlining show in Minneapolis was as brief as it was dramatic. According to several reports from the scene, the Pitchfork-blessed, performance-challenged band only made it about halfway through their opening song, “On Blue Mountain,” before singer Sam France climbed up onto a monitor on the front of the stage and toppled down into…

It’s been a long transition period for Minneapolis expat James Brooks, one-half of now defunct group Elite Gymnastics. After receiving a great deal of attention and accolades for their hazy and buoyant electro-pop, Brooks and his Gymnastics bandmate Josh Clancy parted ways last year and Brooks carried on alone, releasing music sporadically and using his…

I have quite the grab bag for you this week, with a pair of new hip-hop videos and a new offering from singer-songwriter Dan Israel, plus a clip from this morning’s edition of The Daily Circuit on the local music scene and a mind-bending tour of Curtiss A’s basement. Enjoy! And be sure to get…

When the end of the year rolls around and people start casting their ballots for best local album, one band might be criminally overlooked. It’s not because of widespread accessibility issues or anything – nope, it’s  just because the record came out early in January. That time is usually a graveyard for releases unless you’ve…

MTV recently launched a new series called “This Is the Place,” which zooms in on particular music scenes and explores what each city has to offer. For their third episode, they ventured into the heart of Minneapolis, where they discovered that everyone is in everyone else’s bands. Watching this video, a few things jumped out…