This week, Mary Lucia talks about the significance of the Hold Steady playing two shows at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis.

Jon Langford is a true renaissance man: a musician, a visual artist, a producer. Founder of the Mekons and a student and propagator of Americana and roots music, the Welsh-born, Chicago-based Langford stopped at The Current for a fun and free-flowing conversation with Mary Lucia.

This morning, Jill and Brian played Dandy Livingstone's "Rudy, A Message To You" from 1967 but you might know The Specials' 1979 version of the song much better. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that are more successful covers of an original song?

Hailing from Little Falls, Minn., Michael Shynes was living a pretty normal life as an artist, creating new music and trying to make a career as a local singer-songwriter work. Then, this past summer, Shynes’s audience grew unexpectedly to extend way beyond the state and across the world. It all started when Shynes recorded music for…

Last night Jill and Anna took a spin through the Haunted Basement and faced a few of their greatest fears. And now that we're well into October, it's time to start thinking about Halloween. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention a fear that people have?

Red Daughters’ Aaron Lee, better known as “Hix,” was shot this weekend in northeast Minneapolis. The shooting occurred around 10:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 8 on the corner of 13th Street and 4th Avenue NE. As reported by the Star Tribune and WCCO, singer and multi-instrumentalist Hix and his girlfriend, Katie Szczepaniak, were on their way…

There's no roadmap for Atmosphere at this point in their career, there's no hip-hop group that's been at this level of commercial success for twenty years.

With a growing arts and culture scene, Rochester is making more of a name for itself than just medicine. Nowadays there are more and more up-and-coming artists emerging out of Rochester and growing an audience that extends past city boundaries. Many of those musicians making names for themselves are young people. Here’s a look at…

This year’s Caravan du Nord kicks off in Faribault tonight: Friday, Oct. 5. Organized by the Minnesota Music Coalition (MMC) and sponsored by The Current, the series will also stop in Red Wing and Austin. In Faribault, the MCC will host a Q&A with students at Shattuck-St. Mary’s School and have a social gathering at…

Friday Oct. 5 is World Smile Day - coined and initiated by Harvey Ball, a commercial artist from Massachusetts who created the smiley face in 1963. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention smiling?