As The Current's staffers and listeners compile their yearly favorite songs, Mary Lucia has put together a list of hear favorite YouTube videos of 2016. 'I have viewed these an embarrassing number of times,' Mary writes.

This Friday, a choir thousands of singers strong will perform Zach Sobiech’s “Clouds” at the Mall of America for the fourth consecutive year. The performance is intended to honor Sobiech and other young victims of cancer. “If someone were to tell Zach four years ago that the song he had chicken-scratched into his notebook would…

The Lyrics: 1961-2012 by Bob Dylan Just because Bob Dylan didn’t celebrate his Nobel Prize in Literature win, doesn’t mean you can’t. The Lyrics not only showcases classics like Dylan’s 1960s canon and later works like Blood on the Tracks, but continues to record his most recent writings right up through Tempest. Bonus: The Lyrics also includes many of…

We're getting excited for tonight's Current Holiday Show with Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats. In case you've never seen Nathaniel Rateliff, he rocks a glorious beard. So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear from musicians with fantastic facial hair?

The Current's Mary Lucia shares her top songs of 2016.

The Minneapolis singer and rapper spent her early life deep in the Pentecostal church -- and shut away from secular music. When she moved to Houston, Texas, everything changed.

The Rolling Stones have released a new album of blues covers called 'Blue & Lonesome', and it's our Album of the Week. So for today's Coffee Break, what blues-inspired contemporary music do you want to hear?

One of the many things I learned during my Sunday at Paisley Park is that Prince never referred to his admirers as fans. To him, they were simply friends and family. My time at Prince’s famed facility felt nothing short of a family gathering — and a cool one at that. Staff guided my tour group…

This week started with a bang, as two big concert announcements dropped early in the morning. Guns N’ Roses will bring their reunion tour to U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis on July 30, and next summer’s State Fair Grandstand series will begin with Nickelback. GnR have been teasing a local gig announcement with “welcome to the…

Bob Dylan still isn’t going to Sweden to accept his Nobel Prize in Literature on Saturday, but the Swedish Academy says he’s providing a speech to be read on his behalf at the Nobel Banquet. they’ve also announced that Patti Smith will attend the Nobel Prize Ceremony to perform Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.”…