Today, Minnesota is buzzing about the show U2 have just announced for U.S. Bank Stadium on Sept. 8. As we anticipate the upcoming show, we thought we’d look back on U2’s second local show: at First Avenue on Feb. 21, 1982. They’d previously played the venue in 1981 — when it was still known as…

Celebration 2017, a four-day event at Paisley Park last April, drew plenty of Minneapolitans to Prince’s home. That said, most of the long weekenders hailed not from the Twin Cities or outstate Minnesota, but from far-flung states and even other continents. Such was the case of Belgians Stijn Vandeputte and François Vidal, plus their Italian/Brazilian friend Nicola…

Artists heard on The Current are frequently featured on late-night TV. Here's who you can watch for this week.

A sold-out Fitzgerald Theater crowd hung on Chastity Brown‘s every note on Friday night as she celebrated the release of her Red House Records debut, Silhouette of Sirens. “I’m so touched to see y’all here,” Brown said during the encore, clearly inspired by the energy of the adoring audience. She was joined on stage by…

In honor of Sunday's "One Love Manchester" benefit concert, what Manchester bands do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?

When Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, there was only one requirement. Dylan didn’t even have to travel to Stockholm (and in fact he missed the public ceremony, though he later stopped by to collect his prize in a private ceremony). He did, though, have to deliver a Nobel Lecture — even if…

Is Audrey Horne’s son dealing drugs at the Bang Bang Bar? Did Agent Cooper’s second doppelgänger kill a man in small-town South Dakota? Will we ever get the old Agent Cooper back? Is Sheriff Harry Truman dying? I’m going to go ahead and say yes, no, maybe, and probably. Episode five of the new season…

'To listen to Chastity Brown,' writes Andrea Swensson, 'is to lose yourself completely in the sorrow, joy, yearning and wonderment of a hopeful voice that never stops searching; a voice so enormous and evocative that it seeps down past your skin and bones and settles right down into your soul.'

There was a lot of mojo working at the Xcel Energy Center last night. Just some great vibes. Don’t take my word for it, though: that was the pronouncement of Tom Petty himself, walking onstage and welcoming the packed arena with open arms. At Petty’s level — 80 million records sold, 15 years of membership…

Warner Music Group is hopping on the vinyl bus and offering cold beer to customers who join them. On June 10, Warner’s two-year-old annual Record Store Crawl hits Minneapolis for the first time. A coach bus will escort up to 40 vinyl connoisseurs to the Electric Fetus, Mill City Sound, Down in the Valley, Barely Brothers, and…