Courtney Yasmineh’s musical career has been anything but typical. After taking a decade-long break from music, Yasmineh eased back into music in the late 2000s and has already written and recorded four albums, the latest of which she’ll celebrate tonight with a release show at Bunker’s. And though she still manages to fly under the radar…

It was a few years ago now that Katy Vernon first sat at one of the cabaret tables at the intimate Aster Cafe on St. Anthony Main and watched Lucy Michelle play a hootenanny show armed with only an ukulele. “She sat there and sang and she rocked the whole place,” Vernon remembers, “and I…

When someone asks you if you’re a god, you say yes—and the same goes when Prince asks if you want to hear the blues. Posing that question and hearing no dissenters, Prince let rip with a cover of “The Sweeter He Is,” a 1969 song by Isaac Hayes and David Porter that was originally recorded…

Dessa has spent much of this year on the road in support of her new album, Parts of Speech. And along the way, she’s also picked up some dramatic stories, some of which sound more like the lyrics in her songs than things that typically happen to touring indie artists. Just last month, her touring…

Though I was born in Minneapolis and raised in St. Paul and Duluth, I missed the Current’s zeroth birthday. When Minnesota Public Radio’s new station launched on January 24, 2005, I was in Massachusetts, attending graduate school at Harvard University. I knew that something pretty exciting had happened in Minnesota radio, but I had my…

City Pages music editor Reed Fischer stopped by the Current today to announce the winners in the 23rd annual Picked to Click poll, which asks local music experts to weigh in on the best and brightest new artists in our scene. As Reed noted on air today, not only does this year’s Picked to Click…

  Tuesday, October 15 Communion Minneapolis Varsity Theater, Minneapolis 7 p.m., $12 adv/$15 door, 18+ Inspired by the success of a monthly club night in the U.K. that shares the same name, new traveling show Communion (not to be confused with dance night Communion Sundays) takes up residency in different cities around the U.S. and…

St. Paul native Jan Kuehnemund, best known as the founder and lead guitarist in the Twin Cities’ first all-female rock band Vixen, passed away Thursday after what’s been described as a “fierce” battle with cancer. She was 51 years old. Keuhnemund formed Vixen in 1980 when she was still in high school, and the band became…

Happy Friday! Here’s a handful of the latest audio-video treasures to pop up in our Minnesota music scene, along with a few newsy items of note… Trampled by Turtles It was already considered a monumental occasion when Trampled by Turtles held down three nights at First Avenue this past April to celebrate their 10th anniversary…

It’s been a dramatic week for news about St. Paul music venues. On the heels of the Artists’ Quarter’s announcement Monday that they will shutter at the end of the year, Minneapolis institution First Avenue has revealed that they are in the process of purchasing the Turf Club from owner Tom Scanlon and will take…