Coffee BreakCoffee Break: Let's rockAnna Weggel • Jun 28, 2019Rock the Garden is tomorrow and we're so excited we can hardly think about anything else. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that say "rock" in the title or chorus?
Local Current BlogFriday Five: Rock the Garden 2019 editionCecilia Johnson • Jun 28, 2019This week at the Current, we’re looking forward to Rock the Garden, the single-day fest we’ll put on this weekend with the Walker Art Center. So I thought Friday Five might as well reflect that today. Before you lather on the sunscreen, dig out your water bottles, and pull out your tickets (available here), you…
Local Current BlogSemisonic, the Jets, other Minnesota musicians likely lost original master recordings in devastating 2008 fireJay Gabler • Jun 27, 2019Minnesota musicians including Semisonic, the Jets, Judy Garland, and the Andrews Sisters likely had original master recordings destroyed in a 2008 Los Angeles studio fire that claimed a vast swath of historic tapes by artists ranging from jazz founders to ’90s rockers. Original recordings made in Minnesota by Janet Jackson and Nirvana may also have…
Coffee BreakCoffee Break: Change in direction Jun 27, 2019For this morning's Vinyl Tap pick, Jill brought in "Pammie's on a Bummer", a 7:45 song from 'Inner Views', Sonny Bono's 1967 solo album which took a decidedly psychedelic turn from his Sonny & Cher days. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear from artists or bands who swiftly changed genres at some point in their career?
Rock and Roll Book Club'Unknown Pleasures' at 40Lydia Moran • Jun 26, 2019As Joy Division's classic album 'Unknown Pleasures' turns 40, the band's biographer Jon Savage talked about the album and his memories of seeing the band during their too-brief career
Coffee BreakCoffee Break: Let's goAnna Weggel • Jun 26, 2019What songs do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break that say "go"?
Rock and Roll Book ClubRock and Roll Book Club: Jane SavidgeJay Gabler • Jun 26, 2019The job of a music publicist is, by design, unsung. Now, Jane Savidge sings her own song as one of the people who brought Britpop together in the '90s.
Listen to LoochListen to Looch: 'STIV: No Compromise, No Regrets'Mary Lucia • Jun 25, 2019A new documentary from Danny Garcia, 'STIV: No Compromise, No Regrets' captures a time in New York's 1970s punk-rock scene but with a distinctly Midwestern flavor.
Coffee BreakCoffee Break: Beatles for breakfast Jun 25, 2019There are a lot of reasons and a lot of days set aside to celebrate the Beatles and today is one of them. It's Global Beatles Day - marked annually on June 25 in honor of the Beatles' performing "All You Need Is Love", broadcast to an international audience on the BBC program "Our World" in 1967. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs from the world of the Beatles do you want to hear?
Coffee BreakCoffee Break: New RomanticAnna Weggel • Jun 24, 2019Brian spun Duran Duran's "Is There Something I Should Know?" for this morning's Vinyl Tap pick and it got us thinking about the New Romantic movement of the 70s and early 80s - characterized by its flamboyant, eccentric fashion. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear from bands in the New Romantic movement?