There’s no doubt Prince is best known for his contributions to the music industry, but there’s another side to his career. While Prince released countless music videos, filmed many of his live concerts and composed music for TV shows and movies, he also did some acting of his own, guest-starring in a couple of shows…

We recently did a Coffee Break with Texas bands in honor of Houston and Hurricane Harvey, and now it's time to feature Florida as it endures Tropical Storm Irma. So for today's Coffee Break, what songs that mention any part of Florida do you want to hear?

Having released 38 studio albums and dozens of other projects (live albums, singles, box sets, etc.), Bob Dylan doesn’t make it easy on the casual listener. Like Prince and Neil Young, he maintains an oeuvre so dense newcomers hardly know where to start. It’s worth trying to scratch the surface, though, especially if you’d like to…

Bob Dylan has just announced a show at St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Center on Oct. 25, with Mavis Staples. When Dylan last came to town, in 2014, The Current’s staff set out to review every one of Bob Dylan’s studio albums since his 1962 debut. Freshly updated with coverage of Dylan’s newest releases, written by…

When Mary Lucia heard Brian Just's 'Staring Into The Sun' on the radio for the first time, she felt like a regular listener again, anxiously awaiting the DJ's identification of the track.

Following their 2011 disbanding and subsequent 2015 reunion, LCD Soundsystem's highly anticipated 'American Dream' is darker than their previous work, but stays true to the foundations of the band.

I didn’t believe all those music heads who told me to listen closer to The Joshua Tree. I didn’t believe all my friends and mentors, who see U2 live every chance they get and rave about it for weeks after the fact. I didn’t even believe Brian Oake, who I believe about most things, when he…

Sean McPherson talks with hip hop legend DJ Jazzy Jeff.

In the spirit of U2, for today's Coffee Break we're looking for bands that are either still together with their original lineup, or even if they broke up, they never replaced anybody. What bands do you want to hear that kept their original lineup throughout their career?

Given how famously idiosyncratic his songs are, it’s remarkable how well Bob Dylan translates to cover versions. That’s been clear since the ’60s, when performances by Joan Baez, the Mamas & the Papas, the Byrds, Judy Collins, and other artists helped make the mercurial singer-songwriter a household name. The latest artist to put her stamp…