Paisley Park has announced its latest weekly concert screening: tomorrow night, the Chanhassen venue will present a show from Prince’s Musicology Live 2004ever tour. The American tour promoted Musicology, the then-latest in Prince’s string of occasional major-label releases interspersed among indie projects like Xpectation and N.E.W.S. (both 2003). The album was Prince’s biggest hit since Diamonds and Pearls (1991) — due…

Jessica Manning, “Homestead” Jessica Manning‘s first music video, “Homestead,” sounds lush and inviting, even as it plays with chilly desaturated purples. Directed and edited by Cherith Simmons, the video certainly deserves a watch; also, keep an eye out for Manning’s What If I Run release show at Icehouse on Feb. 11. Grant Cutler, “Georgia” Grant Cutler (tiny…

It’s been a long wait for new music from Romantica. The band made a big splash back in 2007 with the release of their second album, America, which wove frontman Ben Kyle’s experiences as an Irish-American into a tapestry of upbeat alt-country and gave him the opportunity to share a stage with one of his…

We hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this morning in the wee hours of the day at Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa, Punxsutawney Phil saw his own shadow, predicting six more weeks of winter. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention shadows and darkness?

This February, The Current is celebrating Black History Month by celebrating four artists chosen by our listeners. We’ll be playing their music on the radio and sharing features online. For the first week, we’re featuring the late Sharon Jones. Sharon Jones was an unstoppable force. I try to check out concert footage of artists I…

Jarvis Johnson, a member of the Texas House of Representatives, has recently introduced a resolution commemorating the tenth anniversary of Prince’s Super Bowl halftime show. With this year’s Super Bowl coming up on Sunday, many are remembering Prince’s legendary 2007 performance at Super Bowl XLI in Miami Gardens, Fla. This year’s Super Bowl is taking place in…

Travel can be enough of an adventure on personal vacations. But when you need to tour for a living, there’s even more at stake. Laughing while they remember language barriers and culture shock, three Minnesotan musicians share the ups and downs of life on the road. Sims In 2014, I played 10 shows in the…

Using her violin, voice, and live looping pedals, singer-songwriter Gaelynn Lea is able to fill a room with undeniable emotion. A longtime standby of the Duluth music scene who gained national recognition when she won last year’s NPR Tiny Desk Contest, she often speaks about living with a disability, overcoming hardship, and the true joy of music.…

Today Jay Gabler stopped by to tell us about the latest Rock and Roll Book Club pick -- Woody Woodmansey's 'Spider from Mars: My Life with Bowie'. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs about spiders and creepy crawlies do you want to hear?

Drummer Woody Woodmansey looks back on an epochal era in 'Spider from Mars: My Life with Bowie.'