“It’s a weird area, but when people come to it, it gets you. It gets in your blood.” That’s Palmer’s Bar co-owner Lisa Hammer, seated on the back patio of her 107-year-old bar sipping white wine and contemplating the character of the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood that surrounds her. Since purchasing the tiny, lovable dive with her…

Read about and download their new track "Get Gone"

The members of experimental hip-hop groups Kill the Vultures, No Bird Sing, and solo artist Kristoff Krane are certainly no strangers to cross-pollination and collaboration. Not only do many of the members perform together in the improvisational group Coloring Time, but they frequently guest on each other’s albums and show up to support one another…

As they approach their eight-year anniversary as a band, White Light Riot have announced this week that they will only play one more show before parting ways and focusing on other projects. “We were planning on doing a new record, and it kind of came time to do it and everyone had these different obligations…

Local bands that deserve must-hear status this week

Doomtree producer's Summer EP out today

“Don’t let this go down as the night you couldn’t get a beer. Let this go down as the night you saw My Morning (bleeping) Jacket!” That quote from emcee Jill Riley turned out to be the line of the night at Friday’s My Morning Jacket, Band of Horses, and Trampled by Turtles triple-bill at…

Each week on The Current’s Local Show, we pick out a handful of promising Twin Cities shows to recommend to our listeners. For your convenience, we thought we’d starting rounding up all this concert info into an easy-to-read list and adding in a few other must-see events that are coming up this week. Behold: Our…

Read about and download their new track "Train Song"

Local music notes from the week of August 6-10