This week, Mary Lucia has a special invitation for Justin Timberlake: as long as you're in town for the Big Game, Justin, why don't you visit The Current? Mary, along with friends Matt Perkins and Anna Reed, explains why you'll enjoy your visit.

The Decemberists' next album, 'I'll Be Your Girl,' releases March 16, 2018. For this new release, Decemberists front man Colin Meloy explains how he and the band strove to break out of old habits. 'We made an effort to really inspect the choices that we were making each time, and make sure it felt exciting,' Meloy says. See David Safar's interview with Meloy, and listen to the Decemberists' lead single, 'Severed.'

Justin Timberlake is in town to perform at Sunday's big game and some people are as excited to see what he has in store as they are to see if the Philadelphia Eagles or the New England Patriots take home the trophy. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear from former halftime performers?

A new book from the Minnesota Historical Society highlights the vital efforts of photographer Charles Chamblis to document African-American communities in the Twin Cities in the 1970s and the 1980s. There are a few familiar faces music fans might recognize - including Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Morris Day, and Prince.

With head-banging, strobe lights, and electric guitar solos, First Aid Kit brought a new energy to the Palace Theatre last night. Sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg just released their fourth album, Ruins. The album features songs that fit the texture we’ve come to expect from First Aid Kit — folksy sounds with beautiful harmonies —…

People are arriving for this weekend's big game, and Minnesotans are beginning to hide. It's all happening, people! So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that include football vernacular?

We’ve been hearing for years that it’s really going to happen. That old armory in downtown Minneapolis, it’s going to be an event space. It’s going to be so cool. Look at these renderings! They’re building a new football stadium, now it will happen for sure. The Super Bowl is coming, so now it has to happen. Right?…

Back in September, when tickets went on sale for Springsteen on Broadway, I seemed to be one of the lucky few to make it through Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan process and successfully snag tickets. I brought my mom along for the ride — which was particularly special, as she is the biggest Springsteen fan I know…

Prince famously said that he would always live in Minnesota because “it’s so cold it keeps the bad people out.” On Monday night in downtown Minneapolis, as the temperature plummeted into the single digits, over 5,000 fans and three brave bands proved that this is the place where good people tough it out in the…

When Jellybean Johnson is hosting a party, the ratio of people wearing top hats and fedoras shoots through the roof. Music fans dressed to the nines turned out in droves on a frigid Sunday night to dance at the Minnesota Music Cafe, where the legendary drummer of the Time had curated a lineup of acts…