Given how difficult it is to maintain freshness as an artist 37 continuous years into a career, 'Songs of Experience' teaches us this is a thing to be celebrated.

Ahead of Queens of the Stone Age's concert at the Palace Theatre in St. Paul on Sunday, Dec. 3, listen to Brian Oake's complete interview with QOTSA front man Josh Homme, who shares, among many things, why it's OK to use the word 'fun' when describing the band's latest album, 'Villians.'

Winter in Minnesota is long and dark, and January tends to bring those subzero temps our winters are famous for. But this January seems to be a hot month for some of Minnesota’s biggest names in music to brighten our weeks with residencies at the Turf Club and Icehouse. Local music fans can look forward…

'Konk' - the second album by The Kooks - is named after the London studio where it was recorded in 2007, owned by Ray Davies of the Kinks. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear from albums named by the location they were recorded - either the studio, the street, or the city?

Every once in a while, you go to a party to find that all of the cool people have also shown up. Welcome to Icehouse on Nov. 30, 2017, the night of veteran drummer/percussionist Joey Van Phillips’s Punch Bowl album release. Van Phillips doesn’t sing on any of the 10 tracks from Punch Bowl. Instead,…

Legendary producers Jimmy “Jam” Harris and Terry Lewis returned to their hometown of Minneapolis today to reveal the first 19 confirmed acts to perform at Super Bowl Live, a 10-day series of free concerts in downtown Minneapolis that are part of a flood of activity surrounding the U.S. Bank Stadium-hosted Super Bowl. Among the headliners…

Nazeem & Spencer Joles, “Thug Tears” Nazeem & Spencer Joles call their new music video a “quirky swagged out Wes Anderson inspired visual,” and descriptions don’t get any better than that. Catch them at the Cabooze with Crunchy Kids and Velvet Negroni on Dec. 29. Fox & Coyote, “Deal” Jonathan Harms never meant to share…

Host Mary Lucia shares her top songs of 2017.

Robyne Robinson is a former TV news anchor and is currently the director of arts and culture at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. During her time as a news anchor, Robinson enjoyed a professional friendship with Prince. On a recent visit to The Current, Robinson spoke with Jim McGuinn, sharing some memorable stories from her time working with Prince, revealing a bit about the artist's playful side.

First Avenue is celebrating some of the best new local bands of 2017 with their annual showcase in the Mainroom on Jan. 5. The lineup consists of seven acts: The Bad Man, BLAHA, Dwynell Roland, Early Eyes, Lady Lark, Sass, and Thomas Abban (five of whom were winners of City Pages’ Picked to Click poll this…